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Marshall Fredericks poses with the full scale plasteline model for "The Friendly Dragon"
“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not an ugly dragon, it's a friendly dragon…
Marshall Fredericks poses with the full scale plasteline model for "The Friendly Dragon" in the greenhouse studio
“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not an ugly dragon, it's a friendly dragon…
Marshall Fredericks poses with the full-scale bronze "Sun Worshipper"
Enlarged from 1937 small-scale model. The full-scale bronze casting is in a private collection.
Marshall Fredericks poses with the full-scale bronze "Sun Worshipper" at an unidentified location
Enlarged from 1937 small-scale model. The full-scale bronze casting is in a private collection.
Marshall Fredericks poses with the full-scale plasteline model for "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit"
Marshall Fredericks with full-scale plasteline model for “Black Elk†at Bloomfield Hills (Greehouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from…
Marshall Fredericks poses with the full-scale plasteline model of "Lord Byron" (The Poet)
According to MaryAnn Wilkinson, former curator of modern and contemporary art at The Detroit Institute of Arts, “His last monumental work, Lord Byron, designed in 1938, enlarged by the artist, and cast posthumously in 1998 for the Marshall…
Marshall Fredericks poses with the full-scale plaster model of "The Spirit of Detroit" in Oslo, Norway
The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at the entrance…
Marshall Fredericks poses with the plasteline model for the male figure from "Freedom of the Human Spirit"
The businessmen backers of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair aspired to produce an economic boom for the city that would rival the hugely successful New York World’s Fair of 1939-40 that brought more than 44 million visitors to the city. Many of…
Marshall Fredericks poses with the plasteline model of the sphere for the base of the central figure for "Cleveland War Memorial"
Fredericks working on the plasteline model of the sphere for the base of the central figure for the “Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Lifeâ€.
Marshall Fredericks poses with the plaster head and shoulders from the female figure for "Star Dream Fountain"
One of Fredericks' last public works, "Star Dream Fountain" is located in Barbara Hallman Plaza in Royal Oak, Michigan. The sculpture is based on a 1947 preliminary design for the "Cleveland War Memorial". This allegorical work symbolizes man's…