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Plaster, sheet metal and metal wire maquette for the Indian and Wild Swans. The plaster has been painted a copper color and is mounted on a stained wood board. There is also a smaller maquette on the same board of the Indian with all four swans.

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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.

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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…

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Flying Wild Gulls model made of wire, plaster, duct tape and silver paint on a wood base . Two Sea Gulls in flight.

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Armature or model for Flying Wild Gulls made of sheet metal.

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Model for Flying WIld Gulls made from duct tape and metal mounted to a black wood base.

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Boat shaped plaster mold with rubber for Star Dream female figure. Written on it is "Royal Oak, Cleveland, Stall B, old #164, use mold release on shellacked surfaces even for wax, Star Dream, Female figure"

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Day maquette plaster figure. Mounted on wood base.

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Night figure maquette. Mounted on wood base.

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This sculptural group of an Indian and four swans is located on the façade of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Fredericks said of the design that the swans, “complement the simple surface (of the wall) with just the right dignified accent…(they…
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