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On a simple granite pedestal sit two bronze geese as they take off into flight. Beneath their bodies, the tips of swamp rushes bend under the weight of the birds’ wings.

According to the sculptor, waterfowl are a symbol of eternal life and this…

Millesgården is an art museum and sculpture garden, located on the island of Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on the grounds of the home of sculptor Carl Milles and his wife, artist Olga Milles, who are both buried there.

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.…

"Henry S. Booth Memorial" at Brookside School, Cranbrook Educational Community.

Henry S. Booth is the son of Cranbrook founders George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth.

Portrait of Marion Kirk in plaster on plaster base.

Two piece plaster exterior, rubber interior mold, plaster core. "Girls Head, Bad Mold" written on mold. Figure is unknown unless we open the mold. Mold is bound together with plastic zip ties.

Portrait of Marion Kirk (Daughter of Author Nevill Kirk), 1933
Bronze, cast 1933

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.017

Arthur Nevill Kirk (1881 1958) executed the metalwork for Christ Church Cranbrook, taught at Cranbrook…

Atop a wooded hill overlooking a small pond in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery stands a memorial to the late attorney turned industrialist Alvan Macauley. Commissioned by his wife and son soon after his death in 1952, the sculpture reflects Macauley’s…

After modeling the Torso of a Dancer in about 1934, Fredericks carved it in Belgian black marble for the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He subsequently used the original plaster model to create several bronze casts.

The nude…

Maquette of the original "Star Dream" concept for the central figure of the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life".