Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings

In 1943, inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress, Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms paintings. They were reproduced in four consecutive issues of The Saturday Evening Post with essays by contemporary writers. Rockwell’s interpretations of Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear proved to be enormously popular. The works toured the United States in an exhibition that was jointly sponsored by the Post and the U.S. Treasury Department and, through the sale of war bonds, raised more than $130 million for the war effort.

You can find images of Norman Rockwell's paintings of Freedom of Speech and Expression and Freedom of Worship on The Four Freedoms. Images of his paintings of Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear are on The Four Freedoms by William J. Vanden Heuvel.

Thanks to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA we are able to show Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings on our website.