Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" Posters

Inspired by FDR’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech, American illustrator Norman Rockwell created his iconic “Four Freedoms” paintings in 1943. Like much of Rockwell’s work, these paintings were popularized by The Saturday Evening Post, which published the paintings with corresponding essays that same year (Freedom of Speech published February 20; Freedom of Worship published February 27; Freedom of Want published March 6; Freedom of Fear published March 13;). Following the success of the posters in print, the United States Department of Treasury reproduced Rockwell’s paintings as part of a campaign to raise war bonds; through a gift from Leonard A. Lauder, these posters are now on display at The Wolfsonian-FIU.

© 1943 SEPS

© 1943 SEPS

© 1943 SEPS

© 1943 SEPS

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Agey Tomesh Design Bureau

Agey Tomesh Design Bureau was founded in Moscow by Arseny Mescheryakov in 1990 and later evolved into an art group. In autumn 2000, Agey Tomesh opened Gallery 259 where showed its own projects, experimenting with digital and reproduction technologies while also developing a concept of collective and pseudonymous authorship. Continuing to work with digital and reproductive technologies, in 2002 Agey Tomesh began publishing WAM (World Art Museum) magazine, positioning it as an exhibition and museum space on paper. Eric Bulatov is one of the cult artists of Soviet underground of the 1960-70s. Trying to reflect social reality, Bulatov combined the methods of realism with a special significance of words and texts, which is characteristic of the conceptual school. He currently lives in Paris. Mikhail Nikitin is a graphic artist in Moscow who has been a member of Agey Tomesh.

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Ruth Ansel

Ruth Ansel, an art director and designer, has collaborated over four decades with international artists and photographers including Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, and David Hockney. She started out as co-art director of Harper’s Bazaar with Bea Feitler in the 1960s...She went on to art direct the New York Times Magazine, House and Garden, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. In the early 1990s she founded Ruth Ansel Design in New York. Notable projects include the film titles for My Dinner with Andre, visual identity graphics for photography dealer James Danziger of Danziger Gallery, and serving as consulting creative director for Mirabella magazine. The studio’s international advertising and design clients have included Karl Lagerfeld, Gianni Versace, and Club Monaco. Book projects include A Demand Performance, about Mark Morris and Mikhail Barishnikov, photographed by Annie Leibovitz; The Sixties by Richard Avedon; Women by Annie Leibovitz; a monograph of the work of Peter Beard; and the first major book about the life and work of jewelry designer Elsa Peretti, which is in progress. Among the awards she’s received are the Herb Lubalin Award for Continuing Excellence in the field of Publication Design from The Society of Publication Designers, gold and silver medals from the Art Directors Club of New York, and numerous awards from the AIGA.

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Daniel Arsham

Daniel Arsham is an artist who works and lives in Miami and New York. His solo exhibitions include: Something Light, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam; Playground, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris; Playground, Gertrude Street, Melbourne; Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part II, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami; and Building Schmuilding, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami. Among his group exhibitions are: Miami in Transition, Miami Art Museum; Greater New York, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach; Miami Nice, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris; Ten Times the Space Between Night and Day, Guild and Greyshkul, New York; and I am the Resurrection, Locust Projects, Miami.

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Jacques Auger

In my poster, I wanted to highlight the four freedoms promoted in Norman Rockwell’s four posters and stress the responsibility everyone has as a citizen to protect those rights by voting. The sans serif all-typography style is in homage to the propaganda posters of the Constructivist period of the early twentieth century.

Jacques Auger is a graphic designer who received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and attended a year of graduate studies at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. Jacques Auger Design Associates (JADA) was located in Miami from 1982 until 2007...when it relocated to Santa Monica. Prior to establishing JADA, Auger worked for various advertising agencies, design studios, and companies in New York, Boston, and Miami. Auger was a founding board member of the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and received its first AIGA Fellow Award in 2000. JADA is proud to have been the first design firm for The Wolfsonian, and was responsible for the award-winning design and production of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts for its first twenty-three issues, from 1986 to 1998.

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Justin Beal

Justin Beal received a BA in Architecture from Yale and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He also attended the Whitney Independent Studio Program and the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. He recently had his first solo exhibition at ACME in Los Angeles. Past group exhibitions include Records Played Backwards, The Modern Institute, Glasgow; Past-Forward, Zabludowicz Collection, London; Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York; Took My Hands Off Your Eyes Too Soon, Tanya Bonakdar, New York; Sculpture & Pose, Casey Kaplan, New York; Radiodays, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam; and Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York. His work was included in the 2008 California Biennial. Beal lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Mark Beard

Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake city, now lives in New York, His works are in museum collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Atheneum; the Whitney, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Princeton, Harvard, and Yale universities; Graphische Sammlung, Munich, and others worldwide, as well as more than one hundred private collections.

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Félix Beltrán

Félix Beltrán was born in Havana and is currently a Mexican citizen. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York and the American Art School, New York and also studied at the Art Students League, New York and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. He is an internationally known graphic designer whose works have been included in 461 collective exhibitions, 67 individual exhibitions and in the collections of 60 national and international museums. He has written four books and many articles for national and international publications. He has received 132 awards in national and international competitions and been on juries numerous competitions. He is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, in Mexico City and curator of the Galería Artis and the Archivo de Diseño Gráfico Internacional at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.

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R. O. Blechman

R. O. Blechman is an illustrator whose work has appeared on fourteen covers of The New Yorker, forty covers of Story Magazine, and in the pages of the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Elle, and Fortune, among other leading publications. He has had one-man shows in Paris, Munich, and New York. The author of seven graphic novels, his animated films were given a retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in 2003.

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Matthew Brannon

Matthew Brannon in an artist based in New York City whose work turns on the opposition—and ever-mounting imbrication—of art and design. After an early stint as a painter, he began to draw his inspiration from those printed materials that mediate everyday life in late-capitalist, early twenty-first- century America, from posters and advertisements to promotional flyers and take-out menus. But if Brannon’s iconography conjures...mass-produced, throwaway sources, his methods are laboriously handcrafted, even old-fashioned: screenprint, letterpress, and lithograph works, often executed in a limited palette and consistent in their graphic rigor. His art seems at first glance disarmingly direct. But as one turns to the text paired with his images, disorder intervenes. Behind the veneer of convenience, plenty, and success implied by the content and format of his images, Brannon seems to suggest, reside darker imperatives—abuse, excess, careerism, insecurity, and failure. His work has been exhibited in several solo and group shows. Solo exhibitions include The Question is a Compliment, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; Before You Say No, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan; Where Were We, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; Try & Be Grateful, agyu, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto; Shoegazers & Graverobbers, Art 37 Statements, David Kordansky Gallery, Basel; Hyena, Jan Winkelmann, Berlin. His work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2008.

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