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The Romance of Transportation [Plaster and Rubber]
Romance of Transportation (Biplane) Plaster mother mold with rubber inner mold, and galvanized pipe.
Romance of Transportation (Covered Wagons), rubber mold.
Romance of Transportation (Covered Wagons), rubber mold.
The Princess greets Greek Army Colonel Constantino Kokorellis
ICD Rehabilitation and Research Center – Visit of Her Royal Highness, Princess Benedikte to the ICD – May 7, 1965
The Princess greets Greek Army Colonel Constantino Kokorellis, paraplegic war veteran, who was sent to the ICD for rehabilitation…
The Princess greets Greek Army Colonel Constantino Kokorellis, paraplegic war veteran, who was sent to the ICD for rehabilitation…
The President of the Republic of Finland, Dr. Urho K. Kekkonen, visiting the United States during October 1961
The President of the Republic of Finland, Dr. Urho K. Kekkonen, visiting the United States during October 16-31, 1961
The President of Finland Dr. Urho K. Kekkonen receives "The Spirit of Detroit"
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The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at…
The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at…
The presentation of the diploma and appointment of King Olav V of Norway by Honorable William Henry Caswell, III, Vice Consul of Norway to Marshall Fredericks
King Olav of Norway confers upon Marshall Fredericks the Knighthood of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, First Class.
The Poet: Lord Byron, Full Scale, [Bronze]
Full size bronze of Lord Byron. Man with long coat with proper right arm raised to his head. Proper left arm is inside coat. His head is tilted back with a look of angst or euphoria on his face. This was the final sculpture of Fredericks which was…
The Poet: Lord Byron [Bronze]
LORD BYRON, 1938
Bronze, cast c. 1985
When Fredericks was a teenager his inspiration was Lord Byron, the nineteenth-century Romantic poet who became associated with a haughty, melancholy mood. Fredericks presents Lord Byron in a dramatic pose…
Bronze, cast c. 1985
When Fredericks was a teenager his inspiration was Lord Byron, the nineteenth-century Romantic poet who became associated with a haughty, melancholy mood. Fredericks presents Lord Byron in a dramatic pose…
The plaster molds for "Lord Byron" (The Poet) in the greenhouse studio
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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…
The plaster mold for the head of "The Friendly Dragon" with the full-scale plasteline model partially covered in plaster in the background
“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not an ugly dragon, it's a friendly dragon…
The plaster models for "Eastern Civilization" and "Nordic Civilization" prior to installation in 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,…