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The plasteline model for "Acrobat” – one of the “Clowns” partially covered in plaster in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.

Torso of a Dancer, c. 1938
Bronze, cast 1984

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.002

After modeling the Torso of a Dancer in about 1934, Fredericks carved it in Belgian black marble for the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield…

This cast in aluminum of the front of the Torso of a Dancer was done by a vacuum machine and sucked down a sheet of aluminum around the mold.

Plaster torso of the front half of the Torso of a Dancer in plaster.

Plaster mold for Torso fo a Dancer with "Torso" written on the mold. Mold is bound with a plastic zip tie.

From Jennifer Lentz (Collection Documentation Intern 1991-1992)
Memo dated September 5, 1991

"RE: Works at Cranbrook Academy of Art…

This plaster model was taken from a casting of the Torso of a Dancer. Reinforced with burlap and has an aluminum hanging rod with fiberglass for support.

Full-Scale plaster model of the Torso of a Dancer. Surface is brownish in color from the shellac used to seal the plaster.

Marble base for Torso of a Dancer

Plaster torso of the front half of the Torso of a Dancer in plaster.

From Jennifer Lentz (Collection Documentation Intern 1991-1992)
Memo dated September 5, 1991

"RE: Works at Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum:
Two Sisters/Mother and…

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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