Mississippi Museum of Art, Public Corridor

This four-panel mural was inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress in 1941. He spoke of a future when the world is founded upon four freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. In the late 1950s, Benjamin M. Stevens, Sr. had commissioned Mildred Nungester Wolfe (1912-2009) to create a mural. Wolfe’s paintings use stylized figures in vibrant colors to illustrate each of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. The mural had hung for years in B.M. Stevens Company store in Richton, Mississippi, and was donated to the Mississippi Museum of Art by his family. Four Freedoms by Mildred Nungester Wolfe is sponsored by Sanderson Farms.

Cost: Free, open to the public