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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Color print
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 6"
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Title
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Front view of polished bronze "Torso of a Dancer"
Subject
The topic of the resource
Bronze sculpture, American--20th century.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
An account of the resource
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.
Fredericks chose to leave the Torso with its raw bronze color. He finished the sculpture with a high degree of polish to emphasize the smooth forms, graceful lines, and strong muscles of the figure.
The nude female form is a subject that has entranced artists since the dawn of time. Fredericks' treatment is typical of sculptors working during the Art Deco period when streamlined, elegant forms predominated, yet Fredericks' realistic but slightly idealized treatment of this traditional subject also illustrates his personal, mature style.
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 22 Folder 24
Date
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n.d.
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
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V-22-24
Format
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image/jpeg
Type
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Image
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
Figure
Figure sculpture
Sculpture
Torso
Torso of a Dancer
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Color print
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 6"
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Title
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Front view of polished bronze "Torso of a Dancer" in shadow
Subject
The topic of the resource
Bronze sculpture, American--20th century.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
An account of the resource
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.
Fredericks chose to leave the Torso with its raw bronze color. He finished the sculpture with a high degree of polish to emphasize the smooth forms, graceful lines, and strong muscles of the figure.
The nude female form is a subject that has entranced artists since the dawn of time. Fredericks' treatment is typical of sculptors working during the Art Deco period when streamlined, elegant forms predominated, yet Fredericks' realistic but slightly idealized treatment of this traditional subject also illustrates his personal, mature style.
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 22 Folder 24
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
n.d.
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
A related resource
V-22-24
Format
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image/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
Figure
Figure sculpture
Sculpture
Torso
Torso of a Dancer
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Black and white print
Physical Dimensions
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8" x 10"
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Title
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Front view of rough plaster model for "Nordic Civilization" for the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life"
Subject
The topic of the resource
Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
An account of the resource
The smoothness of the surface and the graceful, curving lines expressed in this full-scale model of Nordic Civilization are highly suggestive of the sea itself.
The large, powerful sea-god Poseidon’s right hand rests upon the body of a shark. His other arm is outstretched and the hand’s palm is downward, suggesting his control of the waves and all within his reach. Fredericks unites Poseidon with familiar creatures of the sea: porpoise, sturgeons, and tortoise to suggest the union of this god and his minions.
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 7 Folder 15
Date
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n.d.
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
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V-07-15
Format
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image/jpeg
Type
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Image
Identifier
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56-4
Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life
Model
Nordic
Nordic Civilization
Plaster
Plaster Model
Poseidon
Shark
V0715
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Color print
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 6"
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Title
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Front view of shims applied to full scale clay angel model for "God on the Rainbow" project
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series II, Box 17, Folder 9
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1994-9-28
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
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II-17-09
Format
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image/jpeg
Type
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Image
Identifier
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256 NNNN 8. 7A
God on the Rainbow
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Color print
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 6"
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Title
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Front view of shims applied too full scale clay angel model for "God on the Rainbow" project
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series II, Box 17, Folder 9
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1994-9-23
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
A related resource
II-17-09
Format
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image/jpeg
Type
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Image
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
256 NNNN 1. 0A
God on the Rainbow
II1709
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Color print
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 6"
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Title
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Front view of shims being applied to full scale clay angel model for "God on the Rainbow" project
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series II, Box 17, Folder 9
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1994-9-23
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
A related resource
II-17-09
Format
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image/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
256 NNNN 6. 5A
God on the Rainbow
II1709
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Black and white polaroid print
Physical Dimensions
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3.25" x 4.25"
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Title
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Front view of small scale bronze "Freedom of the Human Spirit"
Subject
The topic of the resource
Animal sculpture--20th century.
Bronze sculpture, American--20th century.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
An account of the resource
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 these planners, kids during the ’39-40 Fair, hoped that the experience would be as memorable for their children and families has it had been for them. Dedicated to “Man’s Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe,†the Fair’s theme was “Peace through Understanding.â€
The Fair’s Sculpture Committee requested that Marshall Fredericks submit a proposal for a sculpture to be included at the event. Fredericks submitted several sketches and the Committee selected a sketch of two figures with swans. Originally the figures in the sketch had wings, but the review panel requested that Fredericks remove them in the final sculpture. According to the artist, the sculpture “depicts human figures as if soaring in migratory flights with huge swans, an ancient symbol of eternal life.â€
One of four major sculptures at the Fair, the sculpture stood in the Court of States at the entrance of the U S Government Pavilion. This marked the second time Fredericks contributed a sculpture to a New York World’s Fair, as he previously exhibited a fountain at the 1939 Fair. The Freedom of the Human Spirit still stands at its original location in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens borough.
In 1983, Fredericks donated the design for this sculpture to his adopted hometown of Birmingham, Michigan in honor of the city’s fiftieth anniversary. Erected in Shain Park, the city financed the sculpture through generous donations from over one thousand individuals and corporations. In 2009, the city of Birmingham renovated the park and relocated the sculpture to an area in the center of the park.
A small-scale casting of Freedom of the Human Spirit also serves as the annual Communications Award for the International Center for the Disabled (ICD), an organization of which Fredericks was a longtime benefactor.
Source
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 13 Folder 2
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
n.d.
Rights
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Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
A related resource
V-13-02
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
imag/jpeg
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Animal
Animal Sculpture
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
Figure
Figure sculpture
Freedom of the Human Spirit
Sculpture
Small Scale
Swan
V1302
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Title
A name given to the resource
Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Color polaroid print
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image.
4" x 4"
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Front view of small scale bronze "Freedom of the Human Spirit" with an unidentified drawing in the background
Subject
The topic of the resource
Animal sculpture--20th century.
Bronze sculpture, American--20th century.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
An account of the resource
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 these planners, kids during the ’39-40 Fair, hoped that the experience would be as memorable for their children and families has it had been for them. Dedicated to “Man’s Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe,†the Fair’s theme was “Peace through Understanding.â€
The Fair’s Sculpture Committee requested that Marshall Fredericks submit a proposal for a sculpture to be included at the event. Fredericks submitted several sketches and the Committee selected a sketch of two figures with swans. Originally the figures in the sketch had wings, but the review panel requested that Fredericks remove them in the final sculpture. According to the artist, the sculpture “depicts human figures as if soaring in migratory flights with huge swans, an ancient symbol of eternal life.â€
One of four major sculptures at the Fair, the sculpture stood in the Court of States at the entrance of the U S Government Pavilion. This marked the second time Fredericks contributed a sculpture to a New York World’s Fair, as he previously exhibited a fountain at the 1939 Fair. The Freedom of the Human Spirit still stands at its original location in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens borough.
In 1983, Fredericks donated the design for this sculpture to his adopted hometown of Birmingham, Michigan in honor of the city’s fiftieth anniversary. Erected in Shain Park, the city financed the sculpture through generous donations from over one thousand individuals and corporations. In 2009, the city of Birmingham renovated the park and relocated the sculpture to an area in the center of the park.
A small-scale casting of Freedom of the Human Spirit also serves as the annual Communications Award for the International Center for the Disabled (ICD), an organization of which Fredericks was a longtime benefactor.
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 13 Folder 2
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n.d.
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V-13-02
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eng
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Animal Sculpture
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
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Freedom of the Human Spirit
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Swan
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Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
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The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
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Color print
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4" x 6"
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Front view of small-scale "Leaping Gazelle"
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Animal sculpture--20th century.
Bronze sculpture, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
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In 1936, Marshall Fredericks entered a national competition to design a memorial honoring Levi L. Barbour for Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Barbour, a prominent lawyer who had been instrumental in the purchase of the island as a public park, bequeathed $20,000 to the city for the purpose of erecting some permanent structure on Belle Isle as a “continual hint to [his] fellow citizens to devote themselves to the benefit and pleasure of the public.â€
Open to all Detroit-area sculptors with approved credentials and others with a national reputation, the competition received entries from twenty-six sculptors. Chosen by a unanimous vote, Fredericks’ winning model featured a wounded or leaping antelope which “attempt[ed] to show the beauty in the excitement, or even death, of nature,†according to the artist. Fredericks surrounded the central figure with four smaller figures: a weasel, hawk, squirrel and pheasant, all native to Belle Isle and representing both the predatory and non-predatory aspects of nature.
Located in Belle Isle’s Rose Garden, the sculpture stands sixteen feet tall atop a granite pedestal. In its final form, Fredericks altered his original concept but the overall intent remained the same. Instead of an antelope, a wheeling bronze gazelle is the focal point of the fountain and the four smaller figures on the granite basin depict a hawk, grouse, rabbit and otter, representations of the island’s indigenous animals. At the memorial’s dedication in 1937, Fredericks said the fountain “is meant to express beauty in nature and its creation.â€
Considered by Fredericks to be his “first break,†the Belle Isle Competition garnered Fredericks a great deal of national attention and increased his public notoriety. With castings found throughout the United States and Europe, the Leaping Gazelle remains one of Fredericks’ most popular sculptures.
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 15 Folder 11
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1993
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V-15-11
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Animal Sculpture
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
Gazelle
Leaping Gazelle
Levi L. Barbour
Sculpture
Small Scale
V1511
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Title
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Marshall M. Fredericks Archives Collection
Description
An account of the resource
The Marshall M. Fredericks Collection consists of 200 linear feet of materials, including:
Correspondence: (13 linear feet) including personal, foreign ministry, and general correspondence as well as special letters and card received by Fredericks
Project (Job) Files: (7 linear feet) including correspondence between Fredericks and both sculpture commissioning clients and vendors that helped to fabricate the pieces
Subject Files: (24 linear feet) document Fredericks’ civic interests such as Disabled Americans’ Denmark meeting (DIADEM), Rebild National Park, and Danish Consular work, as well as fraternal organizations and the Marshall M Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Financial (30 linear feet) document the day-to-day operations of running a studio
Photographs: (25 linear feet) including photographs in a variety of sizes, negatives, and slides relating to Fredericks’ teaching career, projects, civic activities, and personal life
Clippings/Articles/Books: (28 linear feet) including media articles, journals, etc. about Fredericks and his work
Books and Magazines: (16 linear feet) including books and magazines which do not directly relate to Fredericks or his work
Drawings: (10 linear feet) including life figure drawings, sculpture project sketches, presentation drawings, working drawings, etc.
Awards/Medals/Memorabilia: (16 linear feet) including awards and medals given to Fredericks as well as medals he designed
Video/Films/Audio: (13 linear feet) including media relating to Fredericks’ work, civic interests, and life
Ephemera:(8 linear feet) containing portfolio postcards, posters, etc.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Color print
Physical Dimensions
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5" x 5"
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Front view of small-scale "Lord Byron (The Poet)
Subject
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Bronze sculpture, American--20th century.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824.
Figure sculpture, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
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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 Fredericks Sculpture Museum paradoxically seems to refer back to Fredericks's earliest influences. This literary figure clearly inspired by Rodin's Balzac, strikes a shameless dramatic pose: head flung back with his hand on his forehead, heavy cloak partially pulled around his body with the other hand flying out to the side and back. Fredericks, in contrast to the symmetry that generally characterizes his designs, treated each side of the Byron figure in a different manner. Along its right side, the figure is closed and solid. The drop of the heavy cloak does not allow for articulation of forms or even for suggestion of the body beneath. Rather, the artist exploits the long, unbroken line of the cloak from the figure's chin to the ground. In contrast, the figure's left side is open and plastic with elbow and knee flung out at an angle from the nipped-in waist. Like Sun Worshipper, The Poet: Lord Byron represents an important mid-career design that he was only able to realize in large scale at the end of his career.†(Marshall M. Fredericks, Sculptor, p. 15)
Byron was a member of the Romantics Poets movement and lived from 1788-1824. As a young adult, Fredericks developed a deep passion for Byron’s poetry. The Poet: Lord Byron was cast posthumously in 1998 and resides in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum’s sculpture garden.
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Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series V, Box 15 Folder 41
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1998
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V-15-41
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8
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
Figure
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Lord Byron
Lord Byron (The Poet)
Sculpture
Small Scale
V1541