Poster, "Freedom From Want"
date: label: date made
content: 1940s
name: label: artist
content: Rockwell, Norman
label: maker
content: Rockwell, Norman
notes: label: Description
content: In defense of democracies around the world, President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his annual message to Congress on January 6, 1941, articulated the aims of the nation facing the threat of a world at war. “We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms” he stated. Two of these freedoms were specifically included in the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Two were freedoms deeply desired by a generation confronted by economic depression and the threat of dictatorships, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
label: Description
content: Artist Norman Rockwell dramatized those aims in a series of paintings that appeared as covers for the Saturday Evening Post and as posters produced by the Office of War Information for its war bond campaign in 1943.
topic: label: general subject association
content: Liberty
label: referenced
content: Freedom
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Staples and Charles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.314098.02
label: accession number
content: 314098
label: catalog number
content: 314098.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: multi-color (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 56 in x 40 in; 142.24 cm x 101.6 cm