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Sketch for "Night and Day Fountain" for Henry J. McMorran Auditorium
Ink on paper
6" x 3"
The Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Michigan commissioned the Night and Day Fountain as well as a gold anodized aluminum Sculptured Clock for the building. Completed two years before the fountain’s installation,…
6" x 3"
The Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Michigan commissioned the Night and Day Fountain as well as a gold anodized aluminum Sculptured Clock for the building. Completed two years before the fountain’s installation,…
Sketch for unidentified sculpture, possibly "Freedom of the Human Spirit"
Graphite on paper
5" x 8"
The businessmen backers of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair aspired to produce an economic boom for the city that would rival the hugely successful New York World’s Fair of 1939-40 that brought more than 44 million…
5" x 8"
The businessmen backers of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair aspired to produce an economic boom for the city that would rival the hugely successful New York World’s Fair of 1939-40 that brought more than 44 million…
Sketch for "Star Dream Fountain"
Graphite and ink on paper
5" x 8"
One of Fredericks' last public works, "Star Dream Fountain" is located in Barbara Hallman Plaza in Royal Oak, Michigan. The sculpture is based on a 1947 preliminary design for the "Cleveland War Memorial". This…
5" x 8"
One of Fredericks' last public works, "Star Dream Fountain" is located in Barbara Hallman Plaza in Royal Oak, Michigan. The sculpture is based on a 1947 preliminary design for the "Cleveland War Memorial". This…
Sketches for "Hawk" for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain"
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"
Sketches for "Hawk" for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" located in Belle Isle's Rose Garden.
5.5" x 8.5"
Sketches for "Hawk" for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" located in Belle Isle's Rose Garden.
Sketch for "Saints and Sinners"
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"
Fredericks created the thirty-inch tall The Saints and Sinners in 1939 while at Cranbrook.
These seven figures are in the style of jamb statues found in the portals of Gothic cathedrals. Attached to…
5.5" x 8.5"
Fredericks created the thirty-inch tall The Saints and Sinners in 1939 while at Cranbrook.
These seven figures are in the style of jamb statues found in the portals of Gothic cathedrals. Attached to…
Sketches for "Colt and Pigs," "Steers," "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)," and "Cotton Pickers"
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 5.75"
Fredericks designed this series for a national products competition in 1939 in hopes that they would be placed on a government building in Washington DC, but the building was never built. The series…
5.5" x 5.75"
Fredericks designed this series for a national products competition in 1939 in hopes that they would be placed on a government building in Washington DC, but the building was never built. The series…
Sketches for "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit"
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"
Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the Heart of God. Black Elk prays through tears, "Oh,…
5.5" x 8.5"
Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the Heart of God. Black Elk prays through tears, "Oh,…
Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" and "Susanna and the Mirror"
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"
Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" or for unrealized sculpture featuring sheep with satyr. Sketches on verso feature seated female nude, possibly for "Susanna and the…
5.5" x 8.5"
Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" or for unrealized sculpture featuring sheep with satyr. Sketches on verso feature seated female nude, possibly for "Susanna and the…
Unidentified sketch, possibly for "Siberian Ram"
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze…
5.5" x 8.5"
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze…
Sketch of Virgin and Unicorn with apple
Graphite on paper
5" x 8"
Sketch of Virgin and Unicorn with apple, possible early sketch for "The Princess and the Unicorn".
5" x 8"
Sketch of Virgin and Unicorn with apple, possible early sketch for "The Princess and the Unicorn".