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This portrait head of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) is four times the size of life in heroic-scale. Compared with the idealized style of most of Fredericks' works, his portrait style is more realistic though simplified.

Located at the…

An unidentified woman pretends to kiss The Thinker at Cranbrook Art Museum.jpg
Fredericks created this sculpture at the request of George Gough Booth, the founder of Cranbrook Educational Community, who wanted a “Thinker” for the steps of the Cranbrook Art Museum similar to Auguste Rodin’s renowned Thinker, a cast of…

An unidentified woman shows Marshall Fredericks a purse at the Tivoli Fair.jpg
Marshall Fredericks at the opening of the second annual Tivoli Fair sponsored by the Northville Historical Society.

An unidentified woman viewing Wings of the Morning at Brookgreen Gardens.tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

An unidentified woman with Wings of the Morning (Edgar B. Flint Memorial).tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

Mrs. Urban Hansen, Urban Hansen, Rosalind Fredericks, Marshall Fredericks and two unidentified men pose beside a Scandinavian Airlines System airplane.jpg
An unidentified woman, Urban Hansen, Rosalind Fredericks, Marshall Fredericks and two unidentified men following the landing of the plane carrying DIADEM participants.

An unidentified woman, Victor Borge and Marshall Fredericks at the 1981 ICD Communications Award Dinner.jpg
ICD Communications Award Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City – October 1981.

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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,…

An unidentified worker polishes Wings of the Morning at the foundry.tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

An unidentified worker polishes the bronze cast of Wings of the Morning at the foundry.tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…
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