© 1943 SEPS

    © 1943 SEPS                     

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The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” posters of 1943, which were recently gifted to the museum by Leonard A. Lauder. Some of the participating artists involved in the project are Neville Brody, Seymour Chwast, Wim Crouwel, Elliott Earls, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner, Paula Scher, Francesco Vezzoli, Chip Kidd, and Italo Lupi, among others. Rockwell’s images, reproduced by the U.S. Office of War Information for mass dissemination, communicated FDR’s vision of “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms”—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. The exhibition will be on view and free to the public in the museum’s lobby.

For more information or to view all of the images on display, please visit the Thoughts on Democracy blog at http://thoughtsondemocracy.blogspot.com

FEATURED IMAGES
Posters, OURS...to Fight for Freedom from Want and OURS ...to Fight for Freedom from Fear, 1943
Designed by Norman Rockwell (1894–1978)
Published by U.S. Office of War Information
Printed by U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC
The Wolfsonian–FIU, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
2007.12.15, 14

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