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Auction History Result 4c0282 FREEDOM FROM FEAR linen 20x28 WWII war poster 1943 great Norman Rockwell Four Freedoms art! Date Sold 4/30/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked World War II Poster (measures 20" x 28" [51 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Freedom From Fear, the 1943 U.S. World War II (WWII) Home Front poster ("Ours...to fight for") featuring a Norman Rockwell painting of parents tucking their son into bed while the father holds a frightening newspaper, originally printed in the Saturday Evening Post. Note that this was one of the set of four 1943 U.S. World War II (WWII) Home Front & War Bond posters ("Ours... to fight for, Freedom from Fear"; "Ours... to fight for, Freedom from Want"; "Save Freedom of Speech. Buy war bonds"; "Save Freedom of Worship. Buy war bonds"; "Each according to the dictates of his own conscience") created by legendary artist Norman Rockwell. Note that the art on each of these posters initially appeared in the Saturday Evening Post magazine. The posters in this set each listed one of the four freedoms that Americans were fighting to preserve during World War II! Note that all four of these posters, commonly referred to as "The Four Freedoms", were printed in three sizes: 20" x 28", 28" x 40", and 40" x 56", and each was printed and distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1943 (there are other versions of the posters that were printed and distributed in other ways). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Norman Rockwell Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and slight fine surface paper loss on the folds. It had two paper clip stains in the top border, one of which entered the top of the "U" of "OURS". Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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