Freedom From Want

Rockwell painted a quartet of canvases for the Four Freedoms Series inspired by an FDR speech; the Four Freedoms included freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want. Freedom from Want was reproduced in an edition of the Saturday Evening Post, a place where many Americans saw Rockwell's iconic domestic images. This painting is emblematic of Rockwell's disturbing nostalgia: all is mostly well, except for the strange-looking boy in the back rear of the composition.