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==Norman Rockwell's paintings== {{main article|Four Freedoms (Rockwell){{!}}''Four Freedoms'' (Rockwell)}} Roosevelt's speech inspired a set of four paintings by [[Norman Rockwell]]. ===Paintings=== The members of the set, known collectively as ''[[Four Freedoms (Rockwell)|The Four Freedoms]]'', were published in four consecutive issues of ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''.<ref>On February 20, 1943; February 27, 1943; March 6, 1943; and March 13, 1943.</ref> The four paintings subsequently were displayed around the US by the [[United States Department of the Treasury]]. <gallery widths="200px" heights="250px"> File:"Freedom of Speech" - NARA - 513536.jpg|''[[Freedom of Speech (painting)|Freedom of Speech]]'' (Saturday, February 20, 1943) – from the ''[[Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)|Four Freedoms]]'' series by [[Norman Rockwell]] File:"Freedom of Worship" - NARA - 513537.jpg|''[[Freedom of Worship (painting)|Freedom of Worship]]'' (Saturday, February 27, 1943) – from the ''Four Freedoms'' series by Norman Rockwell File:"Freedom From Want" - NARA - 513539.jpg|''[[Freedom from Want (painting)|Freedom from Want]]'' (Saturday, March 6, 1943) – from the ''Four Freedoms'' series by Norman Rockwell File:"Freedom from Fear" - NARA - 513538.jpg|''[[Freedom from Fear (painting)|Freedom from Fear]]'' (Saturday, March 13, 1943) – from the ''Four Freedoms'' series by Norman Rockwell </gallery> ===Essays=== Each painting was published with a matching [[essay]] on that particular "Freedom":<ref>Perry, P. (2009a), [http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/01/01/art-entertainment/norman-rockwell-art-entertainment/rockwells-four-freedoms.html "Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms"], ''The Saturday Evening Post'', January/February 2009; Perry, P. (2009b). [http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/05/in-the-magazine/rockwells-four-freedoms-2.html "Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms"], ''The Saturday Evening Post'', January/February 2009.</ref> * ''Freedom of Speech'', by [[Booth Tarkington]] (February 20, 1943).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/21/in-the-magazine/booth-tarkingtons-freedom-speech.html| title = Booth Tarkington's 'Freedom of Speech', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', January/February 2009.| date = December 21, 2017}}</ref> * ''Freedom of Worship'', by [[Will Durant]] (February 27, 1943).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/21/in-the-magazine/will-durants-freedom-worship.html| title = Will Durant's 'Freedom of Worship', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', January/February 2009.| date = December 21, 2017}}</ref> * ''Freedom from Want'', by [[Carlos Bulosan]] (March 6, 1943).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/21/in-the-magazine/carlos-bulosans-freedom-want.html| title = Carlos Bulosan's 'Freedom from Want', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', January/February 2009.| date = December 21, 2017}}</ref> * ''Freedom from Fear'', by [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] (March 13, 1943; the date of Benét's death).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/21/in-the-magazine/stephen-vincent-benets-freedom-fear.html| title = Stephen Vincent Benét's 'Freedom from Fear', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', January/February 2009.| date = December 21, 2017}}</ref> ===Postage stamps=== Rockwell's ''Four Freedoms'' paintings were reproduced as [[postage stamp]]s by the [[United States Post Office]] in 1943,<ref name = "Scott 908">{{cite web | url = http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2028719 | title = Scott Catalog souvenir sheet of four stamps | issue = 908}}</ref> in 1946,<ref name = "Scott 933">{{cite web | url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=147585 | title = Scott Catalog souvenir sheet of four stamps | issue = 933}}</ref> and in 1994,<ref name = "Scott 2840">{{cite web | url = http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=4&cmd=2&eid=183&slide=12 | title = Scott Catalog souvenir sheet of four stamps | issue = 2840 | access-date = November 23, 2010 | archive-date = July 23, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110723124608/http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=4&cmd=2&eid=183&slide=12 | url-status = dead }}</ref> the centenary of Rockwell's birth.
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