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Marshall Fredericks with an assistant carver working on the exterior limestone reliefs for the Ohio Union Building at Ohio State University.jpg
One of six limestone reliefs for the Ohio Union Building, Ohio State University, Columbus.

The Ohio Union reliefs won an Honorable Mention in Sculpture from the Architectural League of New York in 1955.

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In 1936, Marshall Fredericks entered a national competition to design a memorial honoring Levi L. Barbour for Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Barbour, a prominent lawyer who had been instrumental in the purchase of the island as a…

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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.…

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Marshall Fredericks with full-scale plasteline model for “Black Elk” at Bloomfield Hills (Greehouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from…

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This portrait head of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is four times the size of life in heroic-scale. Compared with the idealized style of most of Fredericks' works, his portrait style is more realistic though simplified.

Located at the…

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This portrait head of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is four times the size of life in heroic-scale. Compared with the idealized style of most of Fredericks' works, his portrait style is more realistic though simplified.

Located at the…

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Fredericks working on “Peace Arising from the Flames of War,” central figure for the “Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life” – quarter scale plasteline model, 12 ½ feet.

Final selection for central figure, surrounded by…

Marshall Fredericks with the aluminum reliefs for the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services and Ohio Department of Transportation.jpg
Fredericks designed these reliefs for the Ohio Bureau of Employment and Ohio Department of Transportation in Columbus, Ohio.

The architect of the building, Frederick H. Hobbs, Jr. described the project in this manner:

“The Director of…

Marshall Fredericks with the bronze and plaster Floyd Starr.tif
1990, bronze, 31 inches. Sculpture is located at Starr Commonwealth in Albion, Michigan.

Marshall Fredericks with the bronze full-scale Sun Worshipper.tif
Enlarged from 1937 small-scale model. The full-scale bronze casting is in a private collection.
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