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

Considered by Fredericks to be “his greatest challenge,” the figure of Christ took him four years to complete. Funded by contributions from over 10,000 summer visitors to the shrine, the twenty-eight foot corpus symbolizes a Christ on the cross…

Plasteline model for "Acrobat" – one of the “Clowns”.

This fountain celebrates the nation's first exploration of outer space. According to Fredericks, the sculpture "represents this age of great interest, exploration and discovery in outer space...[and] the immensity, order and mystery of the…

Marshall Fredericks with full-scale plasteline model for “Black Elk” at Bloomfield Hills (Greehouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from…

Redwood cross for "Christ on the Cross” for Indian River Catholic Shrine, Indian River, Michigan.

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,…

The façade of the New Dallas Public Library contained an 880-pound, 20 foot high aluminum sculpture by Marshall Fredericks entitled "Youth in the Hands of God." Symbolizing "the hands of God supporting youth reaching for learning through the medium…

The Ford Empire relief was located in the Ford Auditorium constructed on the Detroit riverfront as the new home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during 1955-1956. Perhaps the most notable feature of the building's interior was the expansive,…

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