Photo-realist painter Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want shaped the idea of America's Thanksgiving holiday, but is filled with fakery and lies. Painted in July, the people in the painting were photographed individually and composited together. The grandmother presenting a picture perfect turkey was Rockwell's professional cook and her husband, forcing a nearly unattainable standard on home cooks. The Saturday evening post asked for a painting that would show the concept of Roosevelt's Freedom of Want, which was a right to addig with food, clothing and shelter. Rockwell took it to the extreme, applying it to a day of abundance during wartime scarcity, engendering anger from Europeans.