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The plasteline model for "Juggler” – one of the “Clowns” in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.

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Plasteline model for "Lovesick Clown (Pagliacci)" – one of the “Clowns” in Marshall Fredericks’ Bloomfield Hills, Michigan studio.

Rear view of the full-scale plaster corpus for Christ on the Cross lying in the greenhouse studio.tif
Fredericks opened the "Greenhouse" and the "Stable" studio in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1960 as an extension of his Royal Oak studio.

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The plaster model for "Lovesick Clown (Pagliacci)" – one of the “Clowns” in his greenhouse studio.

Rear view of the full-scale plaster model for Two Sisters (Mother and Child.jpg
Two Sisters Fountain is located in a courtyard of Kingswood School at Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Inspired by the helpful attitude of the girls at Kingswood, Fredericks cast the full-scale plaster original before…

Rear view of the hands from Youth in the Hands of God prior to installation at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.tif
The façade of the New Dallas Public Library contained an 880-pound, 20 foot high aluminum sculpture by Marshall Fredericks entitled "Youth in the Hands of God." Symbolizing "the hands of God supporting youth reaching for learning through the medium…

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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…

Rear view of the leg and arm armatures for Star Dream Fountain.tif
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…

Rear view of the plasteline model for Day from Night and Day Fountain.jpg
The Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Michigan commissioned the Night and Day Fountain as well as a gold anodized aluminum Sculptured Clock for the building. Completed two years before the fountain’s installation, Fredericks conceived…

Rear view of the plasteline model for Meditation. in the studio.tif
"Meditation" was first sculpted by Fredericks in 1937 while teaching at Cranbrook and enlarged in 1995.
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