HERBERT BAYER LIBRES. 20x14 1/4 inches. El Coordinador de Asuntus Interamericanos. Condition B+: cracking along vertical and horizontal folds; staining in image. A typographic American World War II poster advocating freedom from fear, terror and slander, in red, green and blue, against a light blue background. In 1942 the Office of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, commissioned some of the most preemminent modern American designers of the day, to create posters for distribution in Latin America (the other artists were E. Mcknight Kauffer, John Atherton and Alexey Brodovitch). Atypically progressive artistically, these posters, which appeared early on in America's involvement in the war, were intended to sway Latin American opinion against the Axis powers and to increase the solidarity of the Western hemisphere. Each of the posters in this series highlighted one, or more, of Theodore 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.
