Marshall Fredericks with a model of his "Freedom of the Human Spirit" at a news conference where a campaign was announced to raise $100,000 to bring a 29-foot bronze version of the sculpture to Shain Park in Birmingham.
In 1936, Marshall Fredericks entered a national competition to design a memorial honoring Levi L. Barbour for Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Barbour, a prominent lawyer who had been instrumental in the purchase of the island as a…
This sculpture represents Fredericks' interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's popular story, The Ugly Duckling. Unlike Fredericks' portrayals of other literary subjects, this sculpture illustrates not one moment in the story, but two.…
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…
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.
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.
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…