Browse Items (24 total)

Item #6263.jpg
Gouache and charcoal on board
24" x 32"

The idea to create a memorial honoring Henry Ford took root in 1948 when the Dearborn, Michigan Chamber of Commerce conducted a poll of Dearborn residents and learned that most of the populace favored such…

Item #6260.jpg
Gouache and ink on board
18.5" x 27.5"

Cast in bronze in 1955, this relief depicts a flock of seven foreshortened sheep staring straight ahead at the viewer. Two smaller sheep, possibly lambs, are included in the bottom right hand corner.…

Item #6249.jpg
Pencil and conté crayon on board
23" x 30.5"

The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951.…

Item-#7659.jpg
Oil pencil on laid paper mounted on board
16" x 20"

The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed…

Project drawing for Aeronautical Pioneering for the Ohio Union Building at Ohio State University.jpg
Project drawing for the Ohio Union reliefs, 1951, conté crayon and gouache on board.

Showing one of the Wright brothers with the first motor-driven airplane. The final relief was revised to include other Ohio industries, ceramics and agriculture.…

Project drawing for Aeronautical Pioneering for the Ohio Union Building at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.jpg
Project drawing for the Ohio Union reliefs, 1951, conté crayon and gouache on board.

Showing one of the Wright brothers with the first motor-driven airplane. The final relief was revised to include other Ohio industries, ceramics and agriculture.…

Project drawing for Ceramics, Agriculture, and Aeronaturical Pioneering for the Ohio Union Building at Ohio State University.tif
Project drawing for the Ohio Union reliefs, 1951, conté crayon and gouache on board.

The Ohio Union reliefs won an Honorable Mention in Sculpture from the Architectural League of New York in 1955.

Project drawing for Pioneers and Early Settlers for the Ohio Union Building at Ohio State University.jpg
Project drawing for the Ohio Union reliefs, 1951, conté crayon and gouache on board.

Representing the romance and hardships of westward expansion into Ohio.

The Ohio Union reliefs won an Honorable Mention in Sculpture from the Architectural…

Project drawing of planetary sphere for science library.tif
n.d., pencil, colored pencil, and watercolor on board, 12 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches.

Possibly for Kresge Science Library at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Item-#7560.jpg
Ink on paper mounted on board
14" x 11"

Possibly unrealized.
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