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Pencil on tracing paper
9" x 11.75"

The Boy and Bear was commissioned by the J. L. Hudson Company for architect Victor Gruen’s Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan; at the time, Northland was only the second open-air pedestrian…

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Plaster mother mold with rubber mold and plaster core. The mold is deep. Mold is held together with a bracket and bolts.

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Bronze small-scale model. Posthumously cast Boy and Bear. Foundry and edition marks and A.P. stamped/ inscribed in bronze; also, interior edition mark stamped in bronze.
Fredericks was one of six artists commissioned by the J.L. Hudson Company to…

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Posthumously cast bronze Two Bears posthumous bronze with brown patina. Foundry and edition marks and A.P. stamped/ inscribed in wax; also, interior edition mark stamped in wax.

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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,…

Close-up of the plaster model for Pioneer Family and Animals of the Region for Spirit of Kentucky.jpg
Collectively titled the Spirit of Kentucky, Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal commissioned Fredericks to design reliefs for their new building.

After Fredericks received the commission he reportedly traveled through…

The plaster model for Pioneer Family and Animals of the Region for Spirit of Kentucky.jpg
Collectively titled the Spirit of Kentucky, Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal commissioned Fredericks to design reliefs for their new building.

After Fredericks received the commission he reportedly traveled through…

Plasteline model for the Spirit of Kentucky.jpg
Collectively titled the Spirit of Kentucky, Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal commissioned Fredericks to design reliefs for their new building.

After Fredericks received the commission he reportedly traveled through…

Playing Bears Fountain at Camp Ho-Mita-Koda.jpg
1928-29, stone, 42 inches x 30 feet, competed by Joseph Motto, Camp Ho-Mita-Koda, Newbury, Ohio.

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1928-29, stone, 42 inches x 30 feet, competed by Joseph Motto, Camp Ho-Mita-Koda, Newbury, Ohio.
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