NORMAN ROCKWELL WORLD OF SCOUTING BOY SCOUT LARGE BOOK

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NORMAN ROCKWELL'S WORLD OF SCOUTING Mention Norman Rockwell and Boy Scouts and your mind leaps to a vision of camp fires, roasted marshmallows and hot dogs and sleeping under the stars. Rockwell captured the essence of those moments more completely than any other illustrator in Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting , a biography of iconic illustrator Norman Rockwell.Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is one of America's best known and loved artists. His numerous cover paintings for the Saturday Evening Post captured a period of American life that is long past. But for those of us in Scouting, we remember him for this long running series of Boy Scout calendars. He brought his well trained eye to accurately capture the spirit of Scouting. The WORLD OF SCOUTING is a history of the Boy Scouts of America and World Scouting......All of the famous Boy Scout calendar pictures are , and also Boys' Life illustrations, preparatory sketches, drawings and photographs for the large paintings, many of which have never before been reproduced in a book. 250 illustrations, including 82 plates in full color . HILLICOURT, WILLIAM Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York. 160pp with many full-page color plates and smaller black & white illustrations. The story of Rockwell's wonderful immortalization of American Boy Scouts read more