Zeki Hirsch, 11th Grade Sitting just outside a display of the renowned Four Freedoms paintings, this small but striking work stands out starkly from the vivid colors and quirky characters of Norman Rockwell. Ukrainian-American artist Boris Artzybasheff’s Witches’ Sabbath, made in 1942 for Life magazine, is a dark, grotesque snapshot of one of Europe’s greatest…

Caitlin Chin, 12th grade Arthur Szyk’s Four Freedoms Stamps consist of a repeated sequence of four different stamps, which depict, from left to right, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Each stamp has an illustration depicting a recurring male character, and is labeled with the freedom with which…

Astrid Weinberg, 11th Grade Published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943, Norman Rockwell’s artistic interpretation of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms became a nationwide phenomenon and a patriotic symbol of support for the war effort. This particular image, titled Freedom From Fear, depicts a white family of four in a child’s bedroom, saying…