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Marshall Fredericks and others pose with Leaping Gazelle at Chrysler Corporation.tif
In 1936, Fredericks won a National Award Competition to design a fountain for the Levi L. Barbour Memorial, located on Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Mounted 16 feet high on a granite pedestal, the bronze sculpture sits in a…

Marshall Fredericks greets an unidentified man in front of Leaping Gazelle at Chrysler Corporation.tif
In 1936, Fredericks won a National Award Competition to design a fountain for the Levi L. Barbour Memorial, located on Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Mounted 16 feet high on a granite pedestal, the bronze sculpture sits in a…

Rear view of Victory Eagle (American Eagle) at Chrysler Corporation.tif
Fredericks stylized Victory Eagle in a very geometric and angular way for the exterior of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Although abstracted, the Victory Eagle appears to be landing on the surface of the pedestal. Moreover, it is…

Rosalind Fredericks and others look out the window at Chrysler Corporation.tif
Chrysler Corporation Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Site of "Leaping Gazelle," "Victory Eagle" (American Eagle) and "Siberian Ram".

Stag Hood Ornament.tif
Pencil, gouache and pastel on board.

During the 1950s, Fredericks worked with automobile companies, designing hood ornaments for Chrysler Motors, General Motors Corporation, and Studebaker-Packard Corporation.

View from Chrylser Corporation of Auburn Hills and Pontiac, Michigan.tif
Chrysler Corporation Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Site of "Leaping Gazelle," "Victory Eagle" (American Eagle) and "Siberian Ram".

View of 3Siberian Ram at Chrysler Corporation.tif
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 cast.

Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…

View of Chrysler Corporation.tif
Chrysler Corporation Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Site of "Leaping Gazelle," "Victory Eagle" (American Eagle) and "Siberian Ram".

View of Chrysler Corporation headquarters.tif
Chrysler Corporation Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Site of "Leaping Gazelle," "Victory Eagle" (American Eagle) and "Siberian Ram".
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