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Presidential Medal of Freedom. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday ...
Breaking Home Ties. Breaking Home Ties is a painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell, created for the September 25, 1954, cover of The Saturday Evening Post. The picture represents a father and son waiting for a train that will take the young man to the state university. The painting, considered by experts to be one of Rockwell's ...
Freedom of Speech is the first of the Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell, inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's 1941 State of the Union address, known as Four Freedoms . The painting was published in the February 20, 1943, issue of The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Booth Tarkington. [ 2]
Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address introducing the theme of the Four Freedoms Freedom from Want is the third in a series of four oil paintings entitled Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell. They were inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms, delivered to the 77th United States Congress on January 6, 1941. In the early 1940s, Roosevelt's Four ...
Stevan Dohanos. Stevan Dohanos (May 18, 1907 – July 4, 1994) was an American artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and responsible for several of the Don't Talk set of World War II propaganda posters. [ 1] He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his ...
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings— Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear —are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm), [ 1] and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Constantin Alajálov (born Konstandin Alaǰalyan, Armenian: Կոնստանդին Ալաջալյան; 18 November 1900 — 23 October 1987) was an Armenian-American painter and illustrator. [1] He was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and immigrated to New York City in 1923, becoming a US citizen in 1928. Many of his illustrations were covers for ...
Morgan Giordano. Updated May 3, 2019 at 4:25 PM. 'Antiques Roadshow:' Saturday Evening Post Art Worth $250K. On Monday night's episode of "Antiques Roadshow," a painting that once graced the cover ...