Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.
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,…
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.
Considered by Fredericks to be “his greatest challenge,†the figure of Christ took him four years to complete. Funded by contributions from over 10,000 summer visitors to the shrine, the twenty-eight foot corpus symbolizes a Christ on the cross…
Plaster model for "Birth of the Atomic Age" in Marshall Fredericks' Royal Oak, Michigan studio. The completed sculpture stands at the National Exchange Club in Toledo, Ohio.
Plaster model for "Birth of the Atomic Age" in Marshall Fredericks' Royal Oak, Michigan studio. The completed sculpture stands at the National Exchange Club in Toledo, Ohio.
Plaster model for “Christ on the Cross†which was later installed at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University.
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…