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Plaster planet with metal pin in the center for Celestial Fountain

Plaster planet with metal pin in the center for Celestial Fountain

Plaster mold for Celestial Fountain planet

Brass planet for Celestial Fountain

Metal planet for Celestial Fountian, Male

Brass planet with screw for Celestial Fountain.

Ink on heavy paper
22.75" x 14.5"

Nude female crouching on a sphere planet. There is a small Saturn-like planet that she holds in her proper left hand that is detached.

Planet for Celestial Fountain female figure. Planet is Saturn-like shaped.

Planet for the left hand of "Celestial Fountain: 2000.241.001. Now reattached to the sculpture as of February 2007 by Scott Slocum.

Pencil and ink on tracing paper
11.75" x 18.5"

Fredericks submitted sketch models for "Celestial
Fountain" as a proposal for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Although not selected for inclusion at the Fair, another Fredericks’ sculpture,…