EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) LIBERTAD DE CULTOS. 1942. 19 3/4x14 inches, 50x35 1/2 cm. El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, D.C. Condition B+: sharp horizontal fold; creases in upper right corner. Paper. Framed. In 1942, the Office of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, commissioned four of the most preeminent modern American designers of the time to create posters for distribution in Latin America (the other artists were Alexy Brodovitch, John Atherton and Herbert Bayer). The resulting images were more artistically progressive than the majority of other posters from the war years. They were intended to sway Latin American opinion against the Axis powers and to increase the solidarity of the Western hemisphere. Each poster in this series highlighted one or more of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, as stated to the United States Congress in January, 1941: Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want, Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion. This is the small format. Kauffer 277.
