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Exterior of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum in the snow
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,…
Entrance to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum in the snow
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,…
"Wings of the Morning" (Edgar B. Flint Memorial) in the snow
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…
"Wings of the Morning" (Edgar B. Flint Memorial"
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…
"Saints and Sinners" (The Seven Saints and Sinners) at the Midland Center for the Arts
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In 1976, Fredericks enlarged these figures for the Midland Center for the Arts from the thirty-inch tall bronze version that he created while at Cranbrook in 1939.
These seven figures are in the style of jamb statues found in the portals of…
These seven figures are in the style of jamb statues found in the portals of…
Bronze "Rabbit" with snow atop its head at an unidentified location
Bronze "Rabbit" with snow atop its head at an unidentified location, 1991.
Front view of "Otter" an unidentified location
Front view of snow covered "Otter" an unidentified location.
Side view of "Otter" an unidentified location
Bronze snow covered "Otter" at an unidentified location.
"Leaping Gazelle" covered in snow at a 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…
View from a distance of "Flying Wild Geese" partially covered in snow at an unidentified private residence
Atop a wooded hill overlooking a small pond in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery stands a memorial to the late attorney turned industrialist Alvan Macauley. Commissioned by his wife and son soon after his death in 1952, the sculpture reflects Macauley’s…