 "Freedom from Fear" was published in the March 13, 1943 Issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" with a matching essay by Stephen Vincent Benét as part of the "Four Freedoms" series.Coincidentally, the day it was published, poet, novelist, and short-story writer Benét died.This painting is the only one of the "Four Freedoms" which had been newly created prior to the commissioning of the series.