Ruth Ansel

16 x 20 in. (41 x 51 cm)

Digital print

Condition:  There are several very light indentations in the background area.

In 2008, the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University invited 60 contemporary designers to submit their own interpretations of Norman Rockwell’s well-known “Four Freedoms” posters from 1943. Rockwell based his set of posters, which promoted war bonds, on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 speech enumerating the essential human freedoms as “Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.” The resulting poster exhibition, “Thoughts on Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Posters,” was on view at the Wolfsonian and then traveled to other venues around the country and the world.

Ruth Ansel, an esteemed art director at leading American magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, House & Garden, Vanity Fair and Vogue, offered a typographic composition signifying the four freedoms.

The posters from the exhibition are all digitally printed on thick paper.