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

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

Study of the original "Star Dream" concept for the central figure of the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life" with hand-colored gold stars.

Graphite on vellum
20.25" x 12"

The Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Michigan commissioned the Night and Day Fountain as well as a gold anodized aluminum Sculptured Clock for the building. Completed two years before the fountain’s…

Graphite on tracing paper
8.75" x 11.75"

The Ford Empire relief was located in the Ford Auditorium constructed on the Detroit riverfront as the new home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during 1955-1956. Perhaps the most notable feature of the…

Colored pencil and graphite on tracing paper
24.5" x 24.5"

In 1946, the archdiocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan opened a new church in the Indian River area of northern Michigan. Although the local congregation consisted of only twelve families,…

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,…

Antique looking leather suitcase filled with various sized sharpening and grinding stones.

Two petraglyph like figures adorn this relief. They appear to be drinking from a communal pot. The two figures are seated and there are two star-like objects, one in the sky above the figures heads, and one at the bottom below the figures feet.

Two petraglyph like figures adorn this relief. They appear to be drinking from a communal pot. The two figures are seated and there are two star-like objects, one in the sky above the figures heads, and one at the bottom below the figures feet.…