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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.

Plaster original full-scale model of the Rabbit auxiliary sculpture for the Leaping Gazelle Fountain, 1936.

Plaster mother mold of Barbour fountain rabbit. Three piece mold held together with [laster strips. Written on mold is "Barbour Fountain Rabbit".

Rabbit, auxiliary sculpture for the
Leaping Gazelle Fountain, 1936
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1991.018

Fredericks opened the "Greenhouse" and the "Stable" studio in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1960 as an extension of his Royal Oak studio.

Located on the northwest corner of Normandy and Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Michigan, the building served as Fredericks' studio for over 50 years.

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,…

Bronze "Rabbit" with snow atop its head at an unidentified location, 1991.

Bronze "Rabbit" at a private residence, 1989.

Bronze "Rabbit" at a private residence, 1989.
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