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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Poster- "Freedom of Worship"
Object Number
1985-22-3
Description
This poster is based on Norman Rockwell's 1943 painting, "Freedom of Worship" which shows the profiles of eight heads in a modest space. The various figures represent people of different faiths in a moment of prayer. Particularly, three figures on the bottom row that depict a man with his head covered carrying a religious book who is Jewish, an older woman who is Protestant, and a younger woman with a well-lit face holding rosary beads who is Catholic. Flanking the image, above and below, are the words, "SAVE FREEDOM OF WORSHIP/ BUY WAR BONDS."
Comment
This poster is based on one of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” – a series of four 1942 oil painting. The paintings – Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear – refer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s January 1941 Four Freedoms State of the Union address in which he identified essential human rights that should be universally protected.
Category
Date Made
1943
Dimensions
Height 40"; Width 28.5"
Social Tags (experimental)
