Museum of Fine Arts, Houston celebrates America’s freedom with iconic Norman Rockwell exhibit
Just in time for the holidays, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the quintessential exhibition for the whole family to contemplate liberty and art together: “Norman Rockwell: American Freedom.”
The exhibition centers around Rockwell’s representational paintings depicting what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s four freedoms could look like for all Americans. First introduced as ideals for all of humanity in Roosevelt’s iconic, 1941 State of the Union address, the four freedoms are Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want. Rockwell’s illustrations of those rights became the vision for many Americans after their publication in the Saturday Evening Post as the U.S joined World War II.
