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Close-up side view of Night from Night and Day Fountain outside of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.tif
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 side view of Siberian Ram at an unidentified location.tif
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.

Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…

Close-up side view of Youth in the Hands of God following its installation at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.tif
The façade of the New Dallas Public Library contained an 880-pound, 20 foot high aluminum sculpture by Marshall Fredericks entitled "Youth in the Hands of God." Symbolizing "the hands of God supporting youth reaching for learning through the medium…

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Bronze corpus for "Christ on the Cross” for Indian River Catholic Shrine, Indian River, Michigan.

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Six foot aluminum relief "Christ and the Children" commissioned for St. John's Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Close-up view from below of the plaster model of Christ on the Cross in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.tif
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,…

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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…

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Gilt bronze on limestone. Located at the Cranbrook Institute of Science at Cranbrook Educational Community.

Born into a modest household in Toronto, Canada in 1864, George Booth grew up dreaming of becoming an architect. As a young man, he worked…

Close-up view of Wings of the Morning at an unidentified location.tif
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…

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The armature for "Acrobat” – one of the “Clowns” in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.
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