Ours...to Fight for Freedom from Want

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Ours...to Fight for Freedom from Want
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  • Title :     Ours...to Fight for Freedom from Want
  • Artist:     Norman Rockwell Designer US Office of War Information, Washington, DC Publisher US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Printer
  • Accession:     2007.12.15
  • Country:     United States Washington, D.C.
  • Date:     1943
  • Dimensions:     Inches 28-1/8 20-3/8, Centimeters 71.4 51.8
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Nationalism , World War II 1940-1945 , Freedom and Art , Propaganda
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
  • URL:     2007.12.15.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper offset color lithograph encouraging society to fight for "freedom from want" during World War II; image depicts a family seated around a formal dining table waiting for the elders to serve holiday turkey.