“The Expanding Universe 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…
This portrait head of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is four times the size of life in heroic-scale. Compared with the idealized style of most of Fredericks' works, his portrait style is more realistic though simplified.
Marshall Fredericks standing with the plaster model for "Chief Pontiac". Plaster model for gold anodized aluminum, 20 feet. Commissioned for Community Bank, Pontiac, Michigan (now 30 North Building).
Considered by Fredericks to be “his greatest challenge,†the figure of Christ took him four years to complete. Funded by contributions from over 10,000 summer visitors to the shrine, the twenty-eight foot corpus symbolizes a Christ on the cross…
Fredericks working on “Peace Arising from the Flames of War,†central figure for the “Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life†– quarter scale plasteline model, 12 ½ feet.
Final selection for central figure, surrounded by…