Browse Items (19 total)

Sketch Model (male) for
Celestial Fountain
1988
Bronze model

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1991.121

Created in plaster in 1938, Fredericks
submitted these sketch models for Celestial
Fountain as a proposal for the 1939…

Sketch Model (female) for
Celestial Fountain
1988
Bronze model

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1991.122

Plaster mold with rubber inner mold and a brown wax core. 3 piece plaster, 3 piece black rubber. Mold is bound together with plastic zip ties.

Plaster mold of base for Celestial fountain, there is no inner mold or core. Written on mold is "Mold Spirit of Detroit [crossed out] Wrong" Mold is held together with wire.

Pencil and ink on tracing paper
11.75" x 18.5"

Fredericks submitted sketch models for "Celestial
Fountain" as a proposal for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Although not selected for inclusion at the Fair, another Fredericks’ sculpture,…

Planet for the left hand of "Celestial Fountain: 2000.241.001. Now reattached to the sculpture as of February 2007 by Scott Slocum.

Nude female crouching on a sphere planet. There is a small Saturn-like planet that she holds in her proper left hand that is detached.

Planet for Celestial Fountain female figure. Planet is Saturn-like shaped.

Ink on heavy paper
22.75" x 14.5"

Brass planet with screw for Celestial Fountain.

Metal planet for Celestial Fountian, Male