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After modeling the Torso of a Dancer in about 1934, Fredericks carved it in Belgian black marble for the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He subsequently used the original plaster model to create several bronze casts.…

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Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches of female torso and various animals, including horses, leopard, lions, mountain goat and ram. Sketches include early concepts for "Torso of a Dancer," "Siberian Ram" and the "Levi…

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Full-Scale plaster model of the Torso of a Dancer. Surface is brownish in color from the shellac used to seal the plaster.

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This plaster model was taken from a casting of the Torso of a Dancer. Reinforced with burlap and has an aluminum hanging rod with fiberglass for support.

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This cast in aluminum of the front of the Torso of a Dancer was done by a vacuum machine and sucked down a sheet of aluminum around the mold.

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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 visitors to the city. Many of…

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The plasteline model for "Acrobat” – one of the “Clowns” covered in plaster in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.

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Bronze corpus for "Christ on the Cross” for Indian River Catholic Shrine, Indian River, Michigan.

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Colored pencil, graphite and ink on lined notebook paper
4" x 6"

Small notebook with sketches for various projects, including "Torso of a Dancer" and "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life".

Sidefront view of polished bronze Torso of Dancer against a black background.tif
After modeling the Torso of a Dancer in about 1934, Fredericks carved it in Belgian black marble for the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He subsequently used the original plaster model to create several bronze casts.…
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