The Four Freedoms or Four Essential Human Freedoms is a series of oil painting

Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...

s produced in 1943

1943 in art

-Events:*Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried.*A film version of The Picture of Dorian Grey uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.-Paintings:*Paul Cadmus - The Shower*Dame Laura Knight - Ruby Loftus screwing a breech-ring...

 by the American art

American Art

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ist Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...

. The paintings are approximately equal in dimension with measurements of 45.75 inches (116.2 cm) × 35.5 inches (90.2 cm).

The series, now in the Norman Rockwell Museum

Norman Rockwell Museum

The Norman Rockwell Museum is home to the world's largest collection of original Rockwell art.-History:Founded in 1969, the museum is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Rockwell lived the last 25 years of his life. The museum has been at its current location since 1993. The museum...

, was made for reproduction in The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine. It was published weekly under this title from 1897 until 1969, and quarterly and then bimonthly from 1971.-History:...

over the course of four consecutive weeks in 1943 alongside essay

Essay

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s by prominent thinkers of the day.