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…
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. 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,…
"Marshall Fredericks: An Exhibition of His Sculpture" at the Robert L. Kidd Associates/Galleries in Birmingham, Michigan - November 10-December 3, 1994.
"Marshall Fredericks: An Exhibition of His Sculpture" at the Robert L. Kidd Associates/Galleries in Birmingham, Michigan - November 10-December 3, 1994.