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"Right Arm Mother and Child" written on mold. Two piece plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold and wax core. Bound with a plastic zip tie.

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"Mother and child, Right Arm of Mother and Child" written on mold. Two piece plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold and wax core. Mold is bound with a zip tie.

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"Left Arm of Eve Figure and Mother Figure" written on mold. Two piece plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold and wax core. Mold is bound with a zip tie.

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Stone carvers using plaster model as a guide for carving out the rough form of the bear for "The Boy and Bear" from limestone for Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan. Designed by Victor Gruen, Northland is one of the world's first…

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Stone carvers using plaster model as a guide for carving out the rough form of the bear for "The Boy and Bear" from limestone for Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan. Designed by Victor Gruen, Northland is one of the world's first…

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The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

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1949, German silver, 30 x 16 1/2 inches, part of War Memorial at Ottawa Hills School, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

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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…

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Fredericks, the sculpture "represents this age of great interest, exploration and discovery in outer space...[and] the immensity, order and mystery of the universe.”

The monumental central figure suggests a superhuman mythological being. Seated…
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