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View of plaster model for "Sinner with Serpent (Temptation)" from "Saints and Sinners" for the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
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,…
View of plaster model for "Wings of the Morning"
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…
View of plaster model of "Hands of God" for the University of Michigan Administration Building
Administration Building (now the Literature, Science and Arts Building) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thirty cast aluminum, seven limestone and two bronze reliefs decorate the façades of the building.
View of plaster model of "Hands of God" for the University of Michigan Administration Building in the studio
Administration Building (now the Literature, Science and Arts Building) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thirty cast aluminum, seven limestone and two bronze reliefs decorate the façades of the building.
View of plaster models in Marshall Fredericks' Royal Oak studio - 1966
Located on the northwest corner of Normandy and Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Michigan, the building served as Fredericks' studio for over 50 years.
View of plaster models of the central figure for the "Cleveland War Memorial" in "Marshall Fredericks: An Exhibition of His Sculpture"
"Marshall Fredericks: An Exhibition of His Sculpture" at the Robert L. Kidd Associates/Galleries in Birmingham, Michigan - November 10-December 3, 1994.
View of plaster mold for "Lord Byron" (The Poet)
According to MaryAnn Wilkinson, former curator of modern and contemporary art at The Detroit Institute of Arts, “His last monumental work, Lord Byron, designed in 1938, enlarged by the artist, and cast posthumously in 1998 for the Marshall…
View of plaster molds and models for "Clowns" in Fredericks' greenhouse studio
Plaster models and molds for the “Clowns†- includes: "Acrobat", "Juggler" and "Lovesick Clown (Pagliacci)".
View of plaster molds for "Acrobat" clown with ladder
The plaster model and molds for "Acrobat†– one of the “Clowns†in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.
View of pool at an unidentified private residence with "Flying Wild Geese" and mountains in the background
Atop a wooded hill overlooking a small pond in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery stands a memorial to the late attorney turned industrialist Alvan Macauley. Commissioned by his wife and son soon after his death in 1952, the sculpture reflects Macauley’s…