Hope Ha, 11th Grade Baby New Year Ready for War is a magazine cover for The Saturday Evening Post by J.C. Leyendecker. The cover depicts a blue-eyed, blonde-haired baby sitting on top of a suitcase with British flag colors, along with a small satchel. The baby looks up through a gas mask, while clutching an…

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…

Ariella Rosen, Freshman at Barnard College Marble Champion, a painting by Norman Rockwell, depicts three children crouching before a curved line that is drawn on the ground. There is a boy in white shirt, whose golden hair is bright beneath his red cap; there is a dark-haired boy in a black and white striped polo…

Aaron Shuchman, 10th Grade While Norman Rockwell’s Man Charting War Maneuvers might not contain the jaunty expressions of Willie Gillis: Food Package or the innocence and joy of Marble Champion, the scene is relatable to concerned households across the United States. Front and center, a man listens intently to the radio with a cigar in…