Mastodawn

A previously unpublished illustration intended for the Saturday Evening Post's 1943 New Year's edition. It was never used due to publisher demands that the illustrator, J.C. Leyendecker, create a more optimistic and patriotic cover that was sensitive to the families of American soldiers. It was publicly shown for the first time in 2020 as part of an auction... #artwork #saturdayeveningpost #wikipedia #pictureoftheday #wikimediacommons #wikipediaphotos

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Feb 20

The #SaturdayEveningPost began, #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, a four-week series on #FDR's #FourFreedoms (of speech, of worship, from want, from fear). Each had an oil painting by #NormanRockwell; the first was on #FreedomOfSpeech, with essays on the topic by many prominent writers.

Dorothea Lange Jan 16

Son of depression refugee from Oklahoma now in California

#Oklahoma #California #SaturdayEveningPost #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763222/

tjane00artist (she/her)Nov 27

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. #Thanksgiving #LeyendeckerBaby #SaturdayEveningPost #illustration

WikiPicBot Nov 27

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Freedom from Want ✧

Freedom from Want is the third of the Four Freedoms, a series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The works were inspired by the Four Freedoms articulated in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address. The painting was published in the March 6, 1943, issue of The Saturday Evening...

#SaturdayEveningPost #Freedoms #Rockwell #UnitedStates #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_from_Want

Sim Barr Jul 4, 2025

Miss Liberty 🇺🇸

Oil on Canvas, Norman Rockwell, 1943

A Saturday Evening Post cover created to represent women of the 1940s who went to work during the war, taking over male-oriented jobs while the men fought overseas

#missliberty #femaleworkforce #normanrockwell #womenworkers #oilpainting #the40s #wartime #wwii #saturdayeveningpost #magazinecover ##art #artist #painting #kunst #künstler