Deep Dive: “Thomas Paine on the value of freedom” Ad by S. Neil Fujita

Posted to Logan Square on October 29, 2026

When

Fri, Nov 13 at 12pm

Where

The Barnes Foundation

2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Friday, November 13, 12 – 12:30pm S. Neil Fujita. “Thomas Paine on the value of freedom,” from the series Great Ideas of Western Man (Container Corporation of America), 1952. Detail of print advertisement. Private collection. © 2026 S. Neil Fujita Join us for an in-depth discussion about S. Neil Fujita’s 1952 advertisement “Thomas Paine on the value of freedom” for the Container Corporation of America, led by Avani Sastry, a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. The work is featured inNoguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America, and the talk takes place in the Roberts Gallery.

Deep Dive: “Thomas Paine on the value of freedom” Ad by S. Neil Fujita - Friday, November 13 at 12:00 PM at The Barnes Foundation in Logan Square, Philadelphia
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