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title: Freedom from Fear
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/freedom-from-fear-rockwell-1941/
description: 'Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled ''Freedom from Fear'': parents tuck two sleeping children into bed, the father holding a newspaper whose headline reads'
section: Collection
---

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[![Freedom from Fear, 1941 US poster: Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled 'Freedom from Fear': parents tuck two sleeping](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/freedom-from-fear-rockwell-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/freedom-from-fear-rockwell-1941.jpg)

# Freedom from Fear

Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled 'Freedom from Fear': parents tuck two sleeping children into bed, the father holding a newspaper whose headline reads 'Bombings Kill... Horror Hit...'. The newspaper brings the threat of bombing into the picture; the main appeal is to the ideal of security, with fear-appeal as a secondary element.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NORMAN ROCKWELL
Freedom from Fear
[newspaper, partly legible:] THE [illegible] BOMBINGS K[illegible] HORROR HIT[illegible]
[imprint:] PAINTED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
```

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