Sale of Norman Rockwell Painting Sets Up High School's Scholarship Fund
- November 10, 2015 11:21
The Massachusetts House late last week passed a bill establishing a scholarship fund, using money from the 2014 sale of a painting that Norman Rockwell donated to a Gardner, Mass., principal in the 1940s, reports the Boston Globe.
“Willie Gillis in Convoy," Rockwell's World War II-era work that hung in the Gardner High School principal's office for decades, sold at Sotheby's for a yield of $1.9 million in May 2014.
The recently-passed bill set up the Williams-Rockwell Educational Gift Fund with 50 percent to go toward scholarships for students pursuing the arts and 50 percent to students pursuing academic endeavors.
The painting's buyer remains anonymous while the work currently hangs at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
