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Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms,” then and now
View the CBS Sunday Morning segment here… Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms,” then and now aired on CBS Morning on September 2,… Read More
WALL STREET JOURNAL – In New York, Rockwell’s Vision of FDR’s ‘Freedoms’
In early 1941, with the U.S. almost a year away from entering World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt used his annual message to Congress to set out what he called the “Four Freedoms”—freedom of speech and worship, freedom from want and fear. Two years later, at the height of the war, the Saturday Evening Post used four consecutive issues to publish images inspired by FDR’s speech, all done by America’s best-known illustrator, Norman Rockwell…. Read More
THE GUARDIAN – Four Freedoms at 75: Norman Rockwell’s paintings come to life again
The name of a new exhibition at the New York Historical Society examining Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings, and the political context in which they were conceived, is Enduring Ideals. The ideals in question – freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear – were elucidated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first in an ad-libbed conversation with reporters at his residence in Hyde Park, and later in his 1941 State of the Union address…. Read More
Press Release – Norman Rockwell’s Iconic Four Freedoms to Travel in Seven City International Tour
Norman Rockwell’s Iconic Four Freedoms To Travel in Seven-City International Tour Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms … Read More
UpCountry Magazine – Finding Common Ground: The making of community
I attended a Town of Stockbridge Planning Board meeting one recent evening, when about 250 citizens from our small village of 2,500 came out on a cold winter night to learn about proposed changes to the town’s zoning bylaws…. Read More
New York Times – Norman Rockwell’s Vision of F.D.R.’s Four Freedoms
What does it mean to be an American? It is a question many people are grappling with, especially in the wake of the 2016 election. And it is one of the reasons the New-York Historical Society’s coming exhibition, “Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms,” is so powerful…. Read More
Smithsonian.com – Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Brought the Ideals of America to Life
This wartime painting series reminded Americans what they were fighting for. Norman Rockwell, the master of Americana, captured the essence of daily life in hundreds of 20th-century magazine covers, and 75 years ago this month, he accomplished a greater feat, translating the nation’s ideals into indelible images known as the Four Freedoms…. Read More
Norman Rockwell Museum Announces Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & The Four Freedoms
At a press briefing held Wednesday, March 29, at New York City’s historic Roosevelt House, Norman Rockwell Museum announced details… Read More
