Ours... to Fight for: Freedom from Fear
Date1943
Artist
Norman Rockwell
(American illustrator, 1894–1978)
Illustration CitationThe Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1943. Published with an essay by Stephen Vincent Benét as part of the Four Freedoms series.
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 56 × 40 in. (142.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-34
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis is one of Norman Rockwell's paintings based on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's concept of a post-World War II world based on four human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The Saturday Evening Post published the four images as illustrations in 1943. The paintings then joined a national tour of other patriotic materials; the US War Office printed four million of the "Freedom" sets with the words Buy War Bonds.
