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Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom

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Type: Documentary

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 18, 2020 / ExhibitionFour FreedomsFranklin D. Roosevelt

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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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.

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An Uncertain Future

(Best in Show)

Chris Hopkins
An Uncertain Future, 2014
Oil on panel

Olive Branch

(Best in Show)

Felice House,
Olive Branch, 2016
Oil on canvas

Colored/White

(Best in Show)

Robert Selby
Colored/White, 2016
Oil on wooden door

Freedom of Speech

Peter Zierlein
Freedom of Speech, 2017
Digital

Refuge

Amy Wike
Refuge, 2017
Yarn and Morse code written on paper

The Game

Soody Sharifi,
The Game, 2018
Photograph

Mother and Daughter, Women’s March

Andréanna Seymore
Mother and Daughter, Women’s March 2017, 2017
Photograph

Grassroots

Kathryn Scott
Grassroots, 2017
Photograph

The Four Freedoms (A Tribute to Norman Rockwell)

Deborah Samia
The Four Freedoms (A Tribute to Norman Rockwell), 2018
Hydrocal plaster reinforced with fiberglass

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