This painting, of two children being tucked into bed by their parents, is the last of Rockwell’s famous “Four Freedoms” series, inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address in January, 1941.

Despite the painting’s somber tone — the father clutches a newspaper announcing Germany’s bombing of London during the WWII.

Rockwell and his wife were good friends with Coulter’s parents; her father had built Rockwell’s studio in his Vermont farmhouse. When Rockwell came up for the idea for “Freedom From Fear,” he asked the two Coulter children to come to the studio, instructing Marjorie to bring her favorite doll, shown on the floor.