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Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
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American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
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Freedom from Want
1943 painting by Norman Rockwell
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Leading 19th- and 20th-century American mainstream weekly magazine
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Carlos Bulosan
Filipino-American novelist (1913–1956)
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was a Filipino-American novelist and poet who immigrated to the United States on July 1, 1930. He never returned to the Philippines and he spent most of his life in the United States. His best-known work today is the semi-autobiographical America Is in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Four Freedoms (Rockwell)
1943 painting series by Norman Rockwell
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear—are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches, and are now in the Norman Rockwell…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)