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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,…

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,…

c. 1950s, Original drawing: charcoal on paper, 24 15/16 x 18 15/16 inches

c. 1950s, original drawing: pencil and gouache on paper.

Atop a wooded hill overlooking a small pond in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery stands a memorial to the late attorney turned industrialist Alvan Macauley. Commissioned by his wife and son soon after his death in 1952, the sculpture reflects Macauley’s…

Based on a 1946 sketch by Carl Milles for a peace monument intended for the United Nations Building in New York, Fredericks’ enlargement now stands at the entrance to Stockholm Harbor, a project spearheaded by Cilla Jahn, in collaboration with…

This sculptural group of an Indian and four swans is located on the façade of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Fredericks said of the design that the swans, “complement the simple surface (of the wall) with just the right dignified accent…(they…

Maquette of the original "Star Dream" concept for the central figure of the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life".

Maquette of the original "Star Dream" concept for the central figure of the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life".

After modeling the Torso of a Dancer in about 1934, Fredericks carved it in Belgian black marble for the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He subsequently used the original plaster model to create several bronze casts.

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