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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Norman Rockwell, teenage editor at Boy's Life




The November, 2009 issue of Vanity Fair magazine has an article on a most unlikely artist for the with-it and hip:  Norman Rockwell.  I remember his covers of the Saturday Evening Post many moons ago, and he did quite a few paintings over the years related to Scouting.  The one above is called "Scout Homecoming." 

What I did not know was that Rockwell was the art director of Boy's Life while still his teens.  According to the VF article, he earned $50 a month and could assign work to himself.