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1943 - World War II War Bond, Allied Support Posters (2) :

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1943 - World War II War Bond, Allied Support Posters (2) :
Both produced by the Office of War Information (OWI), Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, dated 1943. 1) SAVE FREEDOM OF WORSHIP, BUY WAR BONDS. Each According to the Dictates of His Own Conscience, by Norman Rockwell. Measuring 20 x 28, a "Painting from The Saturday Evening Post," the lithograph portrays seven persons in prayer (OWI Poster #43). During an address to Congress on January 6, 1941, President Roosevelt delivered his famous "Four Freedoms" speech, which appealed to Americans' most basic beliefs about freedom. The speech inspired Rockwell, who created a series of paintings using the "Four Freedoms" theme. While the Government initially rejected Rockwell`s offer to create paintings on the theme, the images were widely circulated when The Saturday Evening Post, one of the nation`s most popular magazines, commissioned and reproduced the paintings. After gaining widespread approval, the paintings became the centerpiece of a huge war bond drive and were used to explain the war`s aims (Ref: archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms). 2) UNITED we are strong, UNITED we will win, by Henry Koerner. Measuring 28 x 40," the lithograph features artillery gun barrels decorated with the flags of our WW II Allies, all firing in unison (OWI Poster #64). The artist was born in Vienna in 1915 to Jewish parents, where he was trained as a graphic artist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1938 following Hitler's rise to power, he won prizes in the National War Poster Competition. After enlisting in the army, he served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and London. In 1943 he began to paint and in 1945 he was shipped to Germany to draw Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials (Ref: askart.com).