Marshall M. Fredericks posing with the full-size plasteline model for "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" in his Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio.
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,…
The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at the entrance…
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.…
Based on a 1946 sketch by Carl Milles for a peace monument intended for the United Nations Building in New York, Fredericks’ enlargement now stands at the entrance to Stockholm Harbor, a project spearheaded by Cilla Jahn, in collaboration with…
Marshall Fredericks receives a medal from the King of Sweden at an event celebrating the dedication of "God on the Rainbow" (Gud Fader På Himmelsbågan).
Marshall Fredericks receives the Commanders' Cross and is appointed a Commander of the Order of Dannebrog by the Danish Consul General in Chicago, Bengt Johns, at the Fredericks' Birmingham, Michigan home.