"When men can freely communicate their thoughts and their sufferings, teal or imaginary, their passions spend themselves in air, like gunpowder scattered upon the surface; but pent up by terrors, they work unseen, burst forth in a moment, and destroy..." (sculpture).

"When men can freely communicate their thoughts and their sufferings, teal or imaginary, their passions spend themselves in air, like gunpowder scattered upon the surface; but pent up by terrors, they work unseen, burst forth in a moment, and destroy..." (sculpture).

Rand, Paul, 1914- , sculptor.

"When men can freely communicate their thoughts and their sufferings, teal or imaginary, their passions spend themselves in air, like gunpowder scattered upon the surface; but pent up by terrors, they work unseen, burst forth in a moment, and destroy..." (sculpture).

Great Ideas of Western Man Series: When Men Can Freely Communicate Their Thoughts and Their Sufferings, Real or Imaginary, Their Passions Spend..., (sculpture).

Crayon, nail, photomechanical reproduction on wood.

9 3/4 x 6 15/16 x 1 3/16 in.

(Lower left in ink:) PAUL RAND signed

Literature -- Erskine -- On the Advantages of Free Speech

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1984.124.242

Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.

National Museum of American Art, 1990.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.

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