DALLAS (AP) — In one Norman Rockwell painting, a family proudly welcomes a beaming Boy Scout home from camp, his duffel bag in hand. In another of
Aviva Lehmann, Heritage Auction's senior vice president of American art, responds to a question as she stands by paintings in Dallas, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, that are some of many works from the Boy Scouts of America's art collection — including some paintings by Norman Rockwell — that will go up for auction this month to help compensate tens of thousands of people, mainly men, who were sexually abused while in scouting.
“The idea that an iconic art collection that the Boy Scouts have assembled over many years is being liquidated in order to pay survivors recoveries and to bring them some measure of justice I think is very significant,” said Barbara Houser, a retired bankruptcy judge who is overseeing the survivors’ settlement trust.
“Many of these survivors have been waiting decades, literally, for there to be some recognition of what happened to them,” Houser said. In addition to the art sale, those contributing to the trust include insurers and local Boy Scout councils. As of October, over 30 council properties have been sold, Scouting America said.Tom Krumins had only started having conversations with family and friends about being abused as a middle-schooler at a camp in South Carolina when the bankruptcy was filed. It took him months to decide whether to join the settlement.
Doug Kennedy, a survivor and co-chair of a committee representing victims in the bankruptcy case, said more than three-fourths of claimants approved the plan, but watching the process play out through the courts has been “agonizing” for survivors. A work by J.C. Leyendecker depicting a Scout signaling with flags was painted in 1911, a year after the organization was founded. It appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine and was reproduced many times on scouting materials. His 1918 painting of a Boy Scout clutching a sword in front of a flag-draped, shield-wielding depiction of Lady Liberty was adapted as a poster to sell World War I bonds.
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