Town Meeting

1943

Not on view

In 1943 Rockwell painted four large pictures illustrating the "four essential human freedoms" outlined by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1941 address to Congress. The paintings—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear—were reproduced as covers of the Saturday Evening Post. The Metropolitan's painting is one of several preliminary studies for Freedom of Speech based on Rockwell's favorable impressions of a town meeting he attended in his hometown, Arlington, Vermont.

Artwork Details

Title: Town Meeting
Artist: Norman Rockwell (American, New York 1894–1978 Stockbridge, Massachusetts)
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on composition board
Dimensions: 20 1/4 × 16 3/8 in. (51.4 × 41.6 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1952
Object Number: 52.164
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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