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Three unidentified people with one another outside the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Mrs. Dorothy (Honey) Arbury studied with Fredericks when she attended Kingswood School at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the 1930s. She met him through her uncle, Alden B. Dow, a prominent architect in Midland,…
Three versions of "Siberian Ram": full-scale plaster; original small-scale plaster, and plasteline reduction
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.
Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…
Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…
Torso and head of "Acrobat" clown covered in plaster for molds
The plasteline model for "Acrobat†– one of the “Clowns†covered in plaster in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.
Torso and head of 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…
Torso for "Christ on the Cross" at foundry in Norway
Bronze corpus for "Christ on the Cross†for Indian River Catholic Shrine, Indian River, Michigan.
Torso of "Acrobat" clown covered in plaster
The plasteline model for "Acrobat†– one of the “Clowns†partially covered in plaster in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.
Tourists pay a visit to "Christ on the Cross" at Indian River Catholic Shrine
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…
Tourists visit "Christ on the Cross" at Indian River Catholic Shrine
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…
Trees on the property of the Royal Oak studio
Located on the northwest corner of Normandy and Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Michigan, the building served as Fredericks' studio for over 50 years.