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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…

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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Marshall Fredericks with a model of his "Freedom of the Human Spirit" at a news conference where a campaign was announced to raise $100,000 to bring a 29-foot bronze version of the sculpture to Shain Park in Birmingham.

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“Peace Arising from the Flames of War,” central figure for the “Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life”.

Marshall Fredericks with Wings of the Morning in his Royal Oak studio.jpg
Located on the northwest corner of Normandy and Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Michigan, the building served as Fredericks' studio for over 50 years.

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Fredericks created this sculpture at the request of George Gough Booth, the founder of Cranbrook Educational Community, who wanted a “Thinker” for the steps of the Cranbrook Art Museum similar to Auguste Rodin’s renowned Thinker, a cast of…

Marshall Fredericks with The Lion and Mouse at Eastland Center in Harper Woods, Michigan.jpg
This sculpture illustrates the well known Aesop Fable of “The Lion and the Mouse.” Fredericks’ rendition depicts the end of the story in which the tiny mouse returns the king of the jungle’s kindness by saving him from a hunter’s…

Marshall Fredericks with The Lion and Mouse.jpg
This sculpture illustrates the well known Aesop Fable of “The Lion and the Mouse.” Fredericks’ rendition depicts the end of the story in which the tiny mouse returns the king of the jungle’s kindness by saving him from a hunter’s…

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Marshall Fredericks with "The Boy and Bear" at Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan. Designed by Victor Gruen, Northland is one of the world's first shopping centers.

Limestone and gilt bronze, 8 1/2 feet.

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Marshall Fredericks with the Royal Copenhagen "Polar Bear" he received at his 70th birthday from the Danish Club.
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