BBB Pulp Pick - Scout at Ship's Wheel

During my sojourn, I happened across the Norman Rockwell Museum of Vermont which contains hundreds examples of Rockwell's magazine cover and advertising art work. While not as well known as the museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, it's a fun place to stop and recognize how prolific Rockwell was - and pick up a print or two. [Rockwell lived in Vermont from 1939-1953 when his wife became ill and they moved to Stockbridge.]

Scout at Ship's Wheel was the first magazine cover Rockwell produced. Before the Boy Scouts magazine published this painting on its September 1913 cover, readers had become familiar with him through his article and story illustrations - he became art director of Boys' Life the same year at the tender age of 18. Boys' Life was a fairly new publication - the first issue was published in 1911.