the norman rockwell museum, the 75th anniversary of d-day, and putting on the wall the images norman rockwell created that -- rockwell painted the created the ideological concepts that president roosevelt in the state of the union address in 1941. >> this is freedom of speech and expression. the second is freedom of every person who worships god in his own way everywhere in the world. the third is freedom from want, translated in the world terms, means economic understanding procured through every nation a healthy peace time life everywhere in the world. the fourth is freedom of fear. it means a worldwide reduction of armament. that no nation will be in a position to be in a physical act of aggression against any neighbor anywhere in the world. (applause) >> what people forget today is that the concept of four freedoms did not take immediate halt on the national psyche. a few artists made images of freedoms, there was talk of freedoms, but it didn't capture the imagination in any way that people would be excited about until norman rockwell. rockwell's four paintings of the "four free

young and old and in suits and norman rockwell himself has come to ask. i think and making it plain and not rotating it as something specific as congress with a microphone or with a person there, has made this a more symbolic, more ubiquitous right, rather than incident. the right to know would probably have been something rockwell would have thought about in the way he would freedom. as people think of rockwell as the typical american family -- as he grew more mature and thoughtful, rockwell created a series of paintings and images bringing together diverse people. in this case a study for the united nations. but surrounded by people from the world. all nations brought together in contemplation,, thought, expectation, hope, desire that the diverse peoples of the world could come together. we see this theme throughout rockwell's late career, the last years of his life. all agreeing the common theme that doing unto others as you would have do unto you. rockwell celebrated the diversity of people and the diversities of cultures. someone more global citizen

norman rockwell began in failure. he came to washington, d.c. and presented them at the office of war information. the leadership at the time rejected the idea and sent him away without a commission to paint roosevelt's four freedoms. on his trip home, however, he stopped in philadelphia and met with his editors at "the saturday evening post" who embraced the idea and instructed rockwell to go home not to work on other features, but to focus on the four freedoms. he was given three months to do the four freedoms and it took him seven to conceive and paint the pictures once he began. the first painting that he worked on, the one that -- that gave him the inspiration for the series was freedom of speech. as rockwell recalls in his biography, he woke up. he was struggling as rockwell always did, trying to come up with the concept and how he would embody an abstract idea such as freedom of speech and he says he woke up one night and recalled a meeting in the town, arlington, where he lived at the time, a town hall meeting and a debate that took plac

>> ...a norman rockwell shocker. >> is it a fake? >> well, this was the question that was in everyone's mind. >> oh, if these walls could talk. >> i want you to put your hands like this, and we're going to pull it toward me. >> aah! >> there you go. >> oh, my goodness. >> keep going. ♪ [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] ♪ >> i'm jamie colby in arlington, vermont, once home to norman rockwell. it was also home to a man who left his children