Freedom from Want is the third of theFour Freedoms, a series of fouroil paintings by American artistNorman Rockwell. The works were inspired by theFour Freedoms articulated in PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt's 1941State of the Union address. The painting was published in the March 6, 1943, issue ofThe Saturday Evening Post. It depicts a group of people gathered around a dinner table for a holiday meal, all of whom were friends and family of Rockwell; they were photographed individually and painted into the scene.Freedom from Want has become an iconic representation ofThanksgiving and family gatherings in general, and has had a wide array of adaptations and other uses. Popular then and now in the United States, it caused resentment in Europe where the masses were enduring wartime hardship. The work is highly regarded as an example of mastery of the challenges of painting in white on a white background and as one of Rockwell's most famous works.(This article is part of afeatured topic:Four Freedoms.)
1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialistAlfred Nobel(pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish theNobel Prize after his death.
1945 – A consortium of twenty-two U.S. charities foundedCARE with the mission of delivering food aid to Europe in theaftermath of World War II.
1989 – A bomb placed by theMedellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidateCésar Gaviria destroyedAvianca Flight 203, killing all 107 people on board, excluding Gaviria, who was not on the flight.
The1884 United States presidential election was held in November 1884 betweenGrover Cleveland of theDemocratic Party,James G. Blaine of theRepublican Party, and twothird-party candidates. The election was narrowly won by Cleveland, who won 219Electoral College votes to Blaine's 182, ending a run of of six consecutive Republican victories. The issue of personal character featured strongly during the 1884 campaign. Blaine had been prevented from getting the Republican presidential nomination during the previous two elections because of the stigma of a set of letters that he had written, while Cleveland was perceived as having high personal integrity. This campaign advertisement for Blaine, captioned "Another voice for Cleveland", was published in the New York magazineThe Judge on September 27, 1884, and aimed to shift this balance and attack Cleveland's morals by alleging that he had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer inBuffalo, New York. Thechromolithograph illustration depicts a weeping woman holding a baby who cries out "I want my pa!" as Cleveland walks past. Cleveland's campaign responded that he had formed a connection with the woman in question and had assumed responsibility for the child, but that his paternity was unproven.
Illustration credit: Frank Beard; restored byAdam Cuerden
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