Lois Fichner Rathus

Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms, a series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings were inspired by the Four Freedoms, a set of four goals articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the United States, in his 1941 State of the Union address. Freedom from Want was painted in November 1942 and published in the March 6, 1943, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. All of…