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Full-scale plaster models for the "Clowns" in Fredericks' greenhouse studio
Plaster models for the “Clowns†- includes: "Acrobat", "Juggler" and "Lovesick Clown (Pagliacci)".
Full-scale plaster models of "Sir Winston Churchill Memorial," "The Friendly Frog" and "Nordic Swan and the Ugly Duckling" in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Mrs. Dorothy (Honey) Arbury studied with Fredericks when she attended Kingswood School at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the 1930s. She met him through her uncle, Alden B. Dow, a prominent architect in Midland,…
Full-scale plaster models of "Wings of the Morning" and "The Boy and Bear" in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Mrs. Dorothy (Honey) Arbury studied with Fredericks when she attended Kingswood School at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the 1930s. She met him through her uncle, Alden B. Dow, a prominent architect in Midland,…
Full-scale plaster torso for "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit"
Plaster model for “Black Elk†in Fredericks’ Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the…
Full-scale plaster torso for "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit" - alternate side view
Plaster model for “Black Elk†in Fredericks’ Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the…
Full-scale plaster torso for "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit" - side view
Plaster model for “Black Elk†in Fredericks’ Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the…
Full-scale plaster, small-scale plaster and plasteline reduction of "Siberian Ram"
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.
Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…
Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…
Full-size plasteline model of "The Expanding Universe Fountain" after cleaning up damage from frozen plasteline which fell off the armature
This fountain celebrates the nation's first exploration of outer space. According to Fredericks, the sculpture "represents this age of great interest, exploration and discovery in outer space...[and] the immensity, order and mystery of the…
Furniture and toys for the great apes at the Detroit Zoological Institute
Furniture for the great apes in the Holden Amphitheater and Great Ape House at the Detroit Zoological Institute. From left to right: monkey-go-round, double trapeze ring, trapeze pallet and climbing tree.
Fredericks studied the orangutans, gibbons…
Fredericks studied the orangutans, gibbons…
Furniture for the Great Ape Cages at the Detroit Zoological Institute
Furniture for the great apes in the Holden Amphitheater and Great Ape House at the Detroit Zoological Institute.
Fredericks studied the orangutans, gibbons and chimpanzees at the zoo for months to determine their needs, selecting fiberglass and…
Fredericks studied the orangutans, gibbons and chimpanzees at the zoo for months to determine their needs, selecting fiberglass and…