75th anniversary of D-Day. The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell land in Normandy
“On September 11, 2001, during the attacks in New York and the Pentagon, the museum was open. Without saying anything, the visitors gathered in the room of the paintings representing the Four Freedoms. To gather their thoughts,” recalls Jeremy Clowe, of the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. “That day was an attack on the values that all Americans hold dear.”
Seventy-five years after World War II, the evocative power of Norman Rockwell’s paintings (1894-1978) is as strong as ever in the United States. In the museum devoted to him, the central hall is dedicated to the great American illustrator’s four paintings.
Even though today The Four Freedoms occupy an undeniable place in the collective American conscience, their creation was far from straightforward.
