Description
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Signed "Norman Rockwell" (lower left) Oil on canvas
Norman Rockwell's decades-long collaboration with the Boy Scouts of America produced some of the most iconic images in American art. Created for the 1970 Brown & Bigelow Boy Scouts calendar, Come and Get It! is among the largest of his paintings and embodies the spirit of this beloved American institution. Rockwell brilliantly captures the excitement of camp life as Scouts eagerly gather for mealtime, creating a scene filled with warmth, energy and youthful camaraderie.
Rockwell's relationship with the Boy Scouts of America spanned more than six decades, during which his calendar illustrations and contributions to Boys' Life became familiar images in American homes. He famously accepted no royalties for these commissions, assigning all reproduction rights to the organization as a reflection of his admiration for the values it represented. Come and Get It! appears in numerous important publications, including the 1970 cover of Scouting magazine, the ninth edition of the Official Boy Scout Handbook, Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting and the artist's catalogue raisonné.
Certificate Information
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Boy Scouts of America Calendar, Brown & Bigelow Co., Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1970, n.p.,
illustrated
Scouting Magazine, The Boy Scouts of America, January-February 1970, cover
W. Hillcourt, Norman Rockwell's World of
Scouting, New York, 1977, pp. 133-34 illustrated W. Hillcourt, The Official Boy Scout Handbook,
9th ed., Irving, Texas, 1979, cover, illustrated
M. Moline, Norman Rockwell Encyclopedia,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979, p. 231
L.N. Moffatt, Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue, Vol. I, Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
1986, p. 289, no. A91, illustrated
J. Csatari, Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts of America, New York, 2009, pp. 96-97, illustrated
