Ours to Fight For: Freedom From Want

Ours to Fight For: Freedom From Want

Franklin Roosevelt Four Freedoms Speech

Visual interpretation of FDR's Four Freedom's speech. A family sitting down to to eat turkey dinner. Norman Rockwell painted a series of four pictures interpreting Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech. This image demonstrates the third freedom, Freedom From Want. In the painting, Rockwell highlights family and food, showing that in order to be people to truly be a free people, they could not be slaves to hunger. Rather, having a bountiful food supply meant that they were safe and free. The image continues the theme of government-endorsed gardening because it is directly related to FDR's overall concern about food supply, which is what prompted his campaign for the American home front population to produce food via growing a victory garden.

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Painting from Saturday Evening Post
U.S. Government Printing Office

1943

Public Domain

English

1 Poster. Color.

72 x 51 cm