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Mold for "Lovesick Clown (Pagliacci)" – one of the “Clowns” in Marshall Fredericks’ Bloomfield Hills, Michigan studio.

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“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not an ugly dragon, it's a friendly dragon…

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Bronze "Acrobat" – one of the “Clowns” at Saginaw Valley State University.

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Bronze "Acrobat" – one of the “Clowns” at Saginaw Valley State University.

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Small plaster monkey head that is more natural and realistic looking than the stylized chimpanzees, and baboons that Fredericks often made.

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Arrowhead on wood base. Appears to be a cast resin.

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Arrowhead on wood and marble base. Appears to be a cast resin.

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Gold lyre with three birds flying from strings on multilevel octagonal wood base. This is a model for a sculpture that might have never been realized.

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Moray Eel and Fish, 1941
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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While at Cranbrook, Fredericks designed and carved this sculpture to catch water for birds. It was reported that his mentor Carl Milles wrote a…

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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,…
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