It is greatly ironic to me that the Boy Scouts USA must auction off their Rockwell collection of paintings including what the article below notes, titles like "On My Honor" and "I will do my best" - neither of which the Scouts USA did over many, many years. They must now pay for their sins as part of a major mea culpa but will even this payment really "pay" for their sins? And what of the many Scout leaders who were the abusers and their Leaders who essentially gave permission and finally the many Board members who either remained with blinders on or chose to sweep the abuse under the tent. The Scouts should be tracing and holding all involved accountable. After-all, the international courts are catching-up with Nazi camp prison guards, 90+ year olds, who 'till this day escaped consequences but no longer. Is there really a statute of limitation for institutional sexual abuse?
Anyway, here's a clip from the Chronicle of Philanthropy that includes a link to the New York Times article referred to.
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To raise money for their proposed $300 million settlement of sexual-abuse claims, the Boy Scouts of America will put nearly 60 Norman Rockwell paintings on the block. The Scouts holdings, with names like "On My Honor" and "I Will Do My Best," tend to illustrate scouting life, although the painter was never a scout himself. They span nearly 60 years of Rockwell's life. In the past decade, Rockwell's paintings have fetched from $9 million to nearly $50 million at auction, but a biographer of the painter said the Boy Scouts holdings are not among his most valuable works. (New York Times) |