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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Norman Rockwell for The Saturday Evening Post; Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Norman Rockwell for The Saturday Evening Post. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-77 (NAID 513538).
Text on the object
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
