Topic: Four Freedoms
VIDEO: Imagining Freedom: Perspectives on the Four Freedoms
Recorded: October 23, 2020
https://www.rockwellfourfreedoms.org
Join three Imagining Freedom catalogue authors – outstanding scholars who will bring little known aspects of the Four Freedoms and Rockwell’s famed paintings into view. What did these stand for in their time? How did they shape perception and generate support for the war effort? Who were they speaking to and who was left out? What do they mean to us today?
VIDEO: Imagining Freedom: Curator Preview
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VIDEO: Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms
In the spring of 1942, Norman Rockwell was working on a piece commissioned by the Ordnance Department of the US Army, a painting of a machine gunner in need of ammunition.
Posters featuring Let’s Give Him Enough and On Time were distributed to munitions factories throughout the country to encourage production. But Rockwell wanted to do more for the war effort and determined to illustrate Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. Finding new ideas for paintings never came easily, but this was a greater challenge.
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VIDEO: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
Although the nation was not yet at war in January 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his annual message to Congress to proclaim the Four Freedoms as a de facto war standard to one and all.
It was not until Norman Rockwell painted his Four Freedoms that Americans could really understand what they were fighting for and why the Four Freedoms were so important to the country and the world.
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VIDEO: Womanpower: the Fight for the Four Freedoms
Rosie the Riveter emerged as an emblem of the working woman during World War II, the center of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries. Visualized in the early 1940s by American illustrators J. Howard Miller and Norman Rockwell, Rosie represented women who entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during the war as widespread male enlistment greatly diminished the industrial labor force.
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VIDEO: Speeches of Freedoms
Speeches of Freedom is an exclusive feature in Norman Rockwell in VR: The Four Freedoms, a virtual reality experience the accompanied the exhibition on the six-city tour.
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Freedom of Speech 75th Anniversary video highlight
Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾ x 35 ½” Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 20, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms featured on national television
Norman Rockwell Museum’s major traveling exhibit, Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms, was featured on national television September 2, during a segment for the show CBS Sunday Morning. In addition to providing background on Rockwell’s iconic paintings and the 1941 speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that inspired it all, the segment examined how contemporary artists have expressed the idea of freedom in the modern world…. Read More
Norman Rockwell’s Neighbor on “The Four Freedoms”
In this 2009 interview, Norman Rockwell’s next-door neighbor James “Buddy” Edgerton describes how the artist found inspiration for his iconic “Four Freedoms” paintings, starting with “Freedom of Speech.”
NRM Volunteer George Church on listening to the Four Freedoms speech on the radio in 1941
On November 17, 2015, Norman Rockwell Museum volunteer and former employee, George Church sat down to talk about his experiences listening to a live radio broadcast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech in 1941 and paying a visit to see the “Freedom Train” in 1943 to witness Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedom” paintings in person during a nationwide war bond effort to support the United States of America’s efforts in the war.
President Franklin Roosevelt January 6, 1941 The Four Freedoms excerpt
Two minute clip of Paramount newsreel footage of President Roosevelt’s 1941 Annual Message to Congress (Film ID 201-823-3-1) synced with audio from the Roosevelt Library Audio Recordings Collection (http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/arch…). Film copyrighted by Sherman Grinberg Film Library (http://www.shermangrinberg.com/).
Freedom from Want 75th Anniversary video highlight
Freedom from Want, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾ x 35 ½” Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN
