Posts Tagged ‘Rockwell’
- Gift of Dr. Frank Arian, 2009.451.408
Seventy years ago today, on 13 March 1943, Freedom from Fear, the fourth in Norman Rockwell’s series, The Four Freedoms appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell chose as his subject American parents tucking their children in for bed while thinking of the nightly bombings suffered by British civilians (as illustrated by the newspaper headline in which “Bombings” and “Horror” appear).
Rockwell spent seven months working on the series and lost fifteen pounds from his rail-thin frame in the duration. The Four Freedoms paintings were part of Rockwell’s personal collection, which he bequeathed as the Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Post by Curator Kimberly Guise.
Seventy years ago today, on 6 March 1943, Norman Rockwell’s painting Freedom from Want appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The third in his series on The Four Freedoms featured a family sitting down to a plentiful Thanksgiving meal. It would become one of Rockwell’s most popular images.
Rockwell’s Freedom from Want as seen in the Museum’s exhibition presented from September-November 2011, Roosevelt, Rockwell and the Four Freedoms: America’s Slow March from Isolation to Action.
Post by Curator Kimberly Guise
Seventy years ago today, on 27 February 1943, the Saturday Evening Post featured Freedom of Worship, the second in their installment of the Norman Rockwell-illustated series, The Four Freedoms.
Gift of Dr. Frank B. Arian, 2009.451.434
Rockwell’s painting was accompanied by an essay by writer Will Durant in which he stated:
When we yield our sons to war, it is in the trust that their sacrifice will bring to us and our allies no inch of alien soil, no selfish monopoly of the world’s resources of trade, but only the privilege of winning for all peoples the most precious gifts in the orbit of life–freedom of body and soul, of movement and enterprise, of thought and utterance, of faith and worship, of hope and charity, of a humane fellowship with all men.
Post by Curator Kimberly Guise.
Rockwell at work on "Freedom of Speech. " Courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA.
Seventy years ago today, on 20 February 1943, the Saturday Evening Post featured the first illustration in Norman Rockwell’s series, The Four Freedoms. The series depicted the principles annunciated in Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. These would become symbols to many Americans of what we were fighting for in World War II. After their publication in the Saturday Evening Post, Rockwell’s paintings travelled the country as part of the Four Freedoms Bond Tour which raised over $130,000,000 in bonds. Rockwell considered The Freedom of Speech to be the best in the series.
Post by Curator Kimberly Guise.
