Boat shaped plaster mold with rubber for Star Dream female figure. Written on it is "Royal Oak, Cleveland, Stall B, old #164, use mold release on shellacked surfaces even for wax, Star Dream, Female figure"
Flying Pterodactyl, maquette, 1958
Metal, wood and plaster
These armatures and maquettes illustrate the common working practices of traditional figurative sculptors like Fredericks. He fashioned the armatures from flexible wire and sheet metal…
Model for 21 foot sculpture on the John Weld Peck Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. This aluminum eagle mounted on wood, has wings spread and holds in his talons stalks of wheat in one talon and arrows in the other.