The Hawai'i leg of the national exhibit includes the last two stops on a 10-city tour. The event marks the 10th anniversary of the art tour, the 95th anniversary of Boy Scouts and the 75th anniversary of Cub Scouting, said Wes Heu, community and development director of the Aloha Council on O'ahu.

"When you think of Norman Rockwell, you think of Scouting," Hue said. "The best of Scouting. Same with Joseph Csatari. And these are the originals. You don't get to see those very often."

Robert Fawcett, a Maui County Scout Council executive, said he was very pleased to see the display coming to Maui.

"They only pick eight or 10 councils each year," he said, "and to have two councils in Hawai'i selected is quite an honor."

The artwork is selected from the National Scouting Museum collection, which includes 49 Rockwell paintings.

Rockwell's 60-year association with Boy Scouts began in the fall of 1912, when, as an 18-year-old art student, he was hired as an illustrator for Boys' Life, the scouting magazine.

He later went on to become a freelance artist, famed for the idealized, slice-of-life studies of Americana he did for the Saturday Evening Post. But Rockwell maintained his relationship with the scouts and continued to do artwork for calendars and other publications.

Csatari often assisted Rockwell, and in 1976, when Rockwell retired, Boy Scouts asked Csatari to continue the Rockwell tradition.

Rockwell died in 1978 at the age of 84. He once described the heyday of his work, the mid-20th century, as a period "when America believed in itself. I was happy to be painting it."