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Baboon #5 (Laughing with plant), 1939
Plaster original
Sketch model for Baboon Fountain for
World's Fair, 1937 38

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.023

Model for one of five baboons cast for the 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadow, New York, (subsequently destroyed)

Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee, 1939
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.024

Nickel plated plaster of Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee. The green is from years of oxidation of the plating over the plaster.

A baboon holds a baby chimp to her chest. The baby chimp has its back to the baboon. The small chimp has its proper…

Wooden lath armature for Baboon with Baby Chimpanzee with a small amount of plasticine residue in joint areas.

Front section of full-scale model without head of Baboon with Baby Chimpanzee. A baboon holds a baby chimp to her chest. The baby chimp has its back to the baboon. The small chimp has its proper right leg outstretched and is foot on the baboons…

Plaster head for Baboon with Baby Chimpanzee. This is the front section of the head only. The mouth is open slightly.

Plaster and rubber mould with plaster core, bound with plastic straps.

Two piece plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold. Written on the mold is "Fredericks Baboon w. Baby". Mold has two plastic zip ties holding the mold together.

Large plaster baboon with a smaller baboon sitting on its back. The Larger baboon is standing on a base.