Browse Items (60 total)

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Ink on perforated sketchbook paper
5" x 6.75"

Unidentified figure and animal sketches, possibly includes sketches of gazelle for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" on Belle Isle.

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Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Sketches of antelope, possibly early concept for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain".

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Graphite on card stock
3.25" x 5.5"

Sketch of hawk, possibly for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" on Belle Isle.

II.215.jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches of mountain goats and bighorn sheep, possibly early concept for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" on Belle Isle or "Siberian Ram".

II.214.jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches of female torso and various animals, including horses, leopard, lions, mountain goat and ram. Sketches include early concepts for "Torso of a Dancer," "Siberian Ram" and the "Levi…

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Graphite and ink on paper
8" x 5"

Unidentified sketches of various animals, including baboons, gazelle, panthers, owl, and rabbit. Sketches may include early concept for the "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" on Belle Isle.

II.160.jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Sketches for "Hawk" for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" located in Belle Isle's Rose Garden.

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Pencil on tracing paper
11.5" x 18"

In 1936, Fredericks won a National Award Competition to design a fountain for the Levi L. Barbour Memorial, located on Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Mounted 16 feet high on a granite…

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Original 1/3 scale competition sketch model, or presentation model, in plaster of Leaping Gazelle. Five pieces not attached to gazelle in box: 2 horns, 2 front legs, and leaves.

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Plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold and plaster core. "Gazelle" written on it on both sides. Mold is bound together with a plastic zip tie.
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