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Sketches for Veterans Memorial Building
Graphite on steno pad paper
6" x 8.75"
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of…
6" x 8.75"
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of…
Sketches for Veterans Memorial Building
Graphite on card stock
5.25" x 6.75"
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of…
5.25" x 6.75"
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of…
Sketches for Veterans Memorial Building pylons
Ink on tracing paper
7.75" x 18"
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of the…
7.75" x 18"
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of the…
Sketches of "Aesop" and "Hiawatha" for the University of Michigan Administration Building
Graphite on tracing paper
18.5" x 12"
Administration Building (now the Literature, Science and Arts Building) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thirty cast aluminum, seven limestone and two bronze reliefs decorate the façades…
18.5" x 12"
Administration Building (now the Literature, Science and Arts Building) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thirty cast aluminum, seven limestone and two bronze reliefs decorate the façades…
Sketches of "Aesop" and "Hiawatha" for the University of Michigan Administration Building
Graphite and ink drawing
18.5" x 12"
Administration Building (now the Literature, Science and Arts Building) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thirty cast aluminum, seven limestone and two bronze reliefs decorate the façades…
18.5" x 12"
Administration Building (now the Literature, Science and Arts Building) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thirty cast aluminum, seven limestone and two bronze reliefs decorate the façades…
Sketches of "Night" and "Day" for "Night and Day Fountain" at Henry J. McMorran Auditorium
Graphite and ink on tracing paper
11" x 5.5"
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…
11" x 5.5"
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…
Sketches of "Raccoons" for the "Spirit of Kentucky"
Charcoal on tracing paper
10.75" x 6.75"
Collectively titled the Spirit of Kentucky, Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal commissioned Fredericks to design reliefs for their new building.
After Fredericks received the…
10.75" x 6.75"
Collectively titled the Spirit of Kentucky, Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal commissioned Fredericks to design reliefs for their new building.
After Fredericks received the…
Sketches of "The Ford Empire" for the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium
Graphite and ink on tracing paper
16.5" x 13.75"
The Ford Empire relief was located in the Ford Auditorium constructed on the Detroit riverfront as the new home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during 1955-1956. Perhaps the most notable feature…
16.5" x 13.75"
The Ford Empire relief was located in the Ford Auditorium constructed on the Detroit riverfront as the new home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during 1955-1956. Perhaps the most notable feature…
Sketches of "Victory Eagle (American Eagle)"
Colored pencil and graphite on tracing paper
18.25" x 12"
Fredericks stylized Victory Eagle in a very geometric and angular way for the exterior of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Although abstracted, the Victory Eagle appears to…
18.25" x 12"
Fredericks stylized Victory Eagle in a very geometric and angular way for the exterior of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Although abstracted, the Victory Eagle appears to…
Sketches of antelope
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"
Sketches of antelope, possibly early concept for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain".
5.5" x 8.5"
Sketches of antelope, possibly early concept for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain".