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Close-up of fountain infrastructure for the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life"
Fountain infrastructure for the "Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life".
Close-up of full-scale bronze "Flying Wild Geese" 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,…
Close-up of full-scale bronze "Leaping Gazelle" at an unidentified private residence
In 1936, Marshall Fredericks entered a national competition to design a memorial honoring Levi L. Barbour for Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Barbour, a prominent lawyer who had been instrumental in the purchase of the island as a…
Close-up of full-scale bronze central figures from "Star Dream Fountain"
One of Fredericks' last public works, "Star Dream Fountain" is located in Barbara Hallman Plaza in Royal Oak, Michigan. The sculpture is based on a 1947 preliminary design for the "Cleveland War Memorial". This allegorical work symbolizes man's…
Close-up of full-scale plasteline head and torso for "Christ on the Cross" with small-scale plasteline model in background
Plasteline model for "Christ on the Cross" for Indian River Catholic Shrine, Indian River, Michigan.
Close-up of full-scale torso of "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit' - side view
Full-scale plaster torso for “Black Elk†at Fredericks’ Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of…
Close-up of God's feet attached to the rainbow arc for "God on the Rainbow" (Gud Fader På Himmelsbågan)
Based on a 1946 sketch by Carl Milles for a peace monument intended for the United Nations Building in New York, Fredericks’ enlargement now stands at the entrance to Stockholm Harbor, a project spearheaded by Cilla Jahn, in collaboration with…
Close-up of green patina without lacquer for "Freedom of the Human Spirit"
The businessmen backers of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair aspired to produce an economic boom for the city that would rival the hugely successful New York World’s Fair of 1939-40 that brought more than 44 million visitors to the city. Many of…
Close-up of head and arm of "The Expanding Universe Fountain"
This fountain celebrates the nation's first exploration of outer space. According to Fredericks, the sculpture "represents this age of great interest, exploration and discovery in outer space...[and] the immensity, order and mystery of the…
Close-up of hoof from plaster model of "Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit"
Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the Heart of God. Black Elk prays through tears, "Oh, make my people live."