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The New York Times11mon
How a Patriotic Painting Became the Internet’s Soapbox
“Freedom of Speech,” the World War II-era painting by Norman Rockwell, has taken on a new life online. By Charles W. McFarlane So you have an opinion you want to share online — something you ...
Smithsonian Magazine1y
A 21st-Century Reimagining of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms”
Schude created his Freedom from Want in his sister’s dining room with members of his own family. Curtis Licensing / Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust Rockwell’s conjured world is ...
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell is best-known ... In 1943, Rockwell produced his Thanksgiving painting in response to the third, Freedom from Want, for the cover of The Saturday ...
Courthouse News Service1d
Fourth Circuit settles ownership dispute over Norman Rockwell illustration
The appeals court analyzed ancient laws to determine the rightful owner of Norman Rockwell illustrations depicting a beauty ...
Berkshire Eagle10mon
How and why did Norman Rockwell’s iconic ‘Freedom of Speech’ painting become an internet meme? Museum leaders offer some answers
STOCKBRIDGE — Among the most admired Rockwell paintings on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum is “Freedom of Speech,” showing seated men in suits looking up at a man in a blue plaid shirt and brown ...
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Rockwell, Roosevelt, and the Four Freedoms
freedom from want and freedom from fear. To represent these ideals, Norman Rockwell created paintings which became highly successful promotional posters for World War II war bonds. George ...
Times Union5mon
Rockwell Museum launches free, virtual field trip program
“Freedom from Want,” one of Norman Rockwell’s most recognizable ... The virtual field trip uses 250 pieces of art — including Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series and contemporary ...
The Baltimore Sun1y
Portrait of an artist so American; PBS: The ‘American Masters’ series takes a look at Norman Rockwell, one of the most influential image shapers in U.S. history.
What a nice piece of scheduling by PBS — an “American Masters” portrait of Norman Rockwell ... the one found in Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want”? You know the painting: It shows several ...
Daily Press10mon
World Focus: Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’
No doubt, Norman ... freedom from want and freedom from fear. Although Roosevelt’s words and thoughts were inspirational, they were too abstract to a large segment of the population. Rockwell ...
VTDigger1y
How a Vermonter forged a Norman Rockwell painting — and why his family is thankful
Don Trachte Jr. adjusts his father’s replica of the Norman Rockwell painting “Breaking Home ... is best known this time of year for “Freedom from Want,” his 1943 portrait of three ...
The Hill2y
Norman Rockwell paintings being removed from the White House: report
A group of four paintings from American painter Norman Rockwell have been taken off the walls of the White House, Politico reported on Tuesday. The paintings are part of the “So You Want to See ...