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The Thinker is a bronze sculpture of a seated chimpanzee with arms folded and legs crossed. His head rests on his proper right hand and is tilted back slightly giving the appearance of being in deep thought.

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The Thinker, 1938 Bronze,…

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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,…

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Furniture for the great apes in the Holden Amphitheater and Great Ape House at the Detroit Zoological Institute.

Fredericks studied the orangutans, gibbons and chimpanzees at the zoo for months to determine their needs, selecting fiberglass and…

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Small-scale bronze sculpture of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" with two bronze castings of "Don Quixote" in the background. A full-scalebronze casting of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" is in the children's garden, Community House, Birmingham,…

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Full-scale bronze of "Baboon Playing a Mandolin”. A casting of this work is in the children's garden, Community House, Birmingham, Michigan.

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Plaster models of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" and "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Bronze castings of these two works are in the children's garden, Community House, Birmingham,…

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Plaster models of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" and "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Bronze castings of these two works are in the children's garden, Community House, Birmingham,…

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Plaster models of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" and "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Bronze castings of these two works are in the children's garden, Community House, Birmingham,…

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Plaster models of "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" and "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio.

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Plaster models of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" and "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio.
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