Joseph Csatari

Joseph Csatari is an American artist who for more than 30 years has served as the official artist of the Boy Scouts of America, a role he inherited from his friend and mentor Norman Rockwell. An internationally acclaimed illustrator and portrait artist, Csatari's work has appeared in Time, The Saturday Evening Post, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Reader's Digest and many other magazines and book covers. He has made portraits of such notable figures as former First Lady Betty Ford, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, actor James Whitmore, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, among others. His paintings have been made into commemorative U.S. postage stamps, as well as collectible plates and figurines.

Csatari is the recipient of the New York Society of Illustrators' Gold Medal for Art Direction, the Distinguished American Award of the National Football Foundation, and the BSA's Silver Buffalo Award. He is a member of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts of America, co-written with his son Jeff Csatari (author of The Belly Off! Diet and Your Best Body at 40+), is his first book. For more information on Joseph Csatari, visit www.csatari.com.