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Freedom
to Worship or Freedom of Worship is one of Four Freedoms paintings
by Norman Rockwell that were inspired by United States
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address,
known as Four Freedoms, he delivered to the 77th United States
Congress on January 6, 1941.
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The other paintings in this series
were,
1.
Freedom of Speech
2.
Freedom from Fear
3.
Freedom from Want
Freedom to Worship was published in the February 27, 1943 Issue of The
Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Will Durant as part of
the Four Freedoms series. Rockwell felt that this and Freedom of
Speech were the most successful of the set. Early versions of this
painting involved a group of patrons at a barbershop of varying
religions and races. The problem was painting easily recognizable
depictions of different religions and races because there was little
agreement on what a person of certain religions should look like. The
image is commonly enhanced and often darkened in reproduction because
it uses a color combination of soft greys, beiges and browns. In
addition, the paint was applied thinly, which allows the weave of the
canvas to contribute to the image. |