Antique Trader

OURS... to fight for FREEDOM FROM WANT

with its traditional Thanksgiving setting, is one of Norman Rockwell’s “Fourin 1943. Employing his own Arlington, Vermont, neighbors as subjects, the work is widely heralded as one of his most recognizable paintings. It took on even more meaning at the time of publication. “In the eyes of millions of Americans, his scenes ... amounted to an inspired defense of national values, a pictorial rebuke to fascists the world over,” writes Deborah Solomon in her Rockwell biography, .

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