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Freedom from Fear (painting)
Freedom from Fear
is the last of the well-known
Four Freedoms
oil paintings
produced by the
American art
ist
Norman Rockwell
. The series was based on the four goals known as the
Four Freedoms
, which were enunciated by
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
in his
State of the Union Address
on January 6, 1941. This work was published in the March 13, 1943, issue of
The Saturday Evening Post
alongside an
essay
by a prominent thinker of the day,
Stephen Vincent Benét
. The painting is generally described as depicting American children being tucked into bed by their parents while
the Blitz
rages across the
Atlantic
in
Great Britain
.
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