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A display of armatures and maquettes in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
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,…
American Eagle, Federal Reserve Bank Cincinnati, Maquette, [Aluminum]
Model for 21 foot sculpture on the John Weld Peck Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. This aluminum eagle mounted on wood, has wings spread and holds in his talons stalks of wheat in one talon and arrows in the other.
Angel armature and maquette for "God on the Rainbow" (Gud Fader På Himmelsbågan)with pantograph f
Based on a 1946 sketch by Carl Milles for a peace monument intended for the United Nations Building in New York, Fredericks’ enlargement now stands at the entrance to Stockholm Harbor, a project spearheaded by Cilla Jahn, in collaboration with…
Armatures and maquettes for sculptures on display in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
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,…
Final version of the maquette for the central figure of the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life"
Final version of the maquette for the central figure of the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life".
Flying Pterodactyls, Maquette, [Plaster and Metal]
Flying Pterodactyl, maquette, 1958
Metal, wood and plaster
These armatures and maquettes illustrate the common working practices of traditional figurative sculptors like Fredericks. He fashioned the armatures from flexible wire and sheet metal…
Metal, wood and plaster
These armatures and maquettes illustrate the common working practices of traditional figurative sculptors like Fredericks. He fashioned the armatures from flexible wire and sheet metal…
Flying Wild Gulls, Maquette
Model for Flying WIld Gulls made from duct tape and metal mounted to a black wood base.
Flying Wild Gulls, Maquette, [Metal]
Armature or model for Flying Wild Gulls made of sheet metal.
Flying Wild Gulls, Maquette, [Plaster, Wood, Duct Tape]
Flying Wild Gulls model made of wire, plaster, duct tape and silver paint on a wood base . Two Sea Gulls in flight.
Front view of maquette for "Flying Wild Geese"
Atop a wooded hill overlooking a small pond in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery stands a memorial to the late attorney turned industrialist Alvan Macauley. Commissioned by his wife and son soon after his death in 1952, the sculpture reflects Macauley’s…