Below is the latest The Pain -- When Will It End?
Updated 01/08/03

Artist's Statement

The Four Freedoms--Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear--were enumerated in Franklin Rooselevt's 1941 State of the Union address, and famously illustrated by Norman Rockwell. (It is worth noting that the government, as perceptive then as now, refused Rockwell's offer to paint these inspirational images and only appropriated them to sell war bonds after they appeared to such popular success in the Saturday Evening Post.) Rockwell's original paintings can be viewed online at:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/four_freedoms.html

It being another period of economic depression and international crisis when the threat of war is imminent, I thought the time had come to update these images for the current generation of Americans.


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