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Topic: Norman Rockwell

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

This video is a production of Norman Rockwell Museum.  © 2020 Norman Rockwell Museum. All Rights Reserved.

September 1, 2020 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsFranklin D. RooseveltNorman Rockwell

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.

This video is a production of Norman Rockwell Museum.  © 2018 Norman Rockwell Museum. All Rights Reserved.

August 15, 2020 / Four FreedomsFranklin D. RooseveltNorman Rockwell

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.

This video is a production of Norman Rockwell Museum.  © 2018 Norman Rockwell Museum. All Rights Reserved.

October 12, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

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

March 23, 2018 / Four FreedomsNorman Rockwell

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.”

March 23, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

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

March 23, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

Freedom of Worship 75th Anniversary video highlight

Freedom of Worship, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 46” x 35 ½” Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

March 23, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

Freedom from Fear 75th Anniversary video highlight

Freedom from Fear 75th Anniversary video highlight

Freedom from Fear, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾” x 35 ½” Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

March 23, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

Freedom of Worship

Freedom of Worship, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 46” x 35 ½” Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

March 23, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

Freedom of Speech

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

March 23, 2018 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsNorman Rockwell

Freedom from Want

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

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