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He resumed work with the Boy Scouts of America in 1926 with production of his first of fifty-one original illustrations for the official Boy Scouts of America annual calendar
Rockwell’s first Boy Scout calendar illustration was published in 1925, not 1926. Official sources identify 1925’s “A Good Scout” as the first Brown & Bigelow Boy Scout calendar featuring his work.
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This sentence gives the wrong start year for Rockwell’s Boy Scout calendar work.
Official sources identify 1925 as the first Boy Scout calendar featuring a Rockwell illustration:
- The Norman Rockwell Museum store describes “A Good Scout” as a “1925 Calendar Illustration for the Boy Scouts of America for Brown & Bigelow Co.”
- A fact sheet for the 2013–2014 American Originals: Norman Rockwell and Scouting exhibition states: “In 1925, calendar publisher Brown & Bigelow began producing a Boy Scout calendar, the first featuring Rockwell’s ‘A Good Scout.’” It then adds that Rockwell created 50 more Brown & Bigelow Scouting calendar illustrations afterward.
So the first of Rockwell’s Boy Scout annual-calendar illustrations was not produced in 1926; the first published calendar featuring his work was in 1925.
2 sources
- Good Scout (1925) Signed Print - Norman Rockwell Museum Store
“A Good Scout, 1925 Calendar Illustration for the Boy Scouts of America for Brown & Bigelow Co.” The page also says Rockwell began painting what became a half-century of Boy Scouts calendar images in 1924.
- Rockwell Scouting Exhibit Fact Sheet
“In 1925, calendar publisher Brown & Bigelow began producing a Boy Scout calendar, the first featuring Rockwell's ‘A Good Scout.’ … Rockwell created 50 more Brown & Bigelow Scouting calendar illustrations, the last appearing in 1976.”