Paula Scher

16 x 20 in. (41 x 51 cm)

Digital print

Condition: Excellent

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.  
 
Paula Scher (1948-), a partner at Pentagram and one of the most influential and celebrated graphic designers in the United States and internationally, contributed a set of posters in which each freedom is represented by a hand gesture. Around the edges of each poster, Scher reproduced the text of recent newspaper articles relating to the suppression of the illustrated freedom.

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