Sculpting and Casting

Once Marshall Fredericks finalized his concept for the City-County Building sculpture, he began to create a twelve-inch maquette, or small clay model, of the figure. He then enlarged it to quarter-scale and had it cast in plaster. Since the final sculpture would be more than sixteen feet tall once completed, Fredericks decided to have it cast in Norway, which had a foundry capable of casting such a large work of art. The quarter-scale plaster model was then crated and shipped to Oslo, Norway where Fredericks continued to further enlarge it to full-scale.

The sculpture was cast in twenty-one sections by the Norwegian foundry Kristiania Kunst & Metalstöberi, and then assembled, burnished and patinated. The entire casting process took over a year to complete.