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II.173.jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 5.75"

Fredericks designed this series for a national products competition in 1939 in hopes that they would be placed on a government building in Washington DC, but the building was never built. The series…

II185..jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Originally created to support the Tower of the Four Winds, Black Elk Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska. The Peace Pipe points from the Heart of Man to the Heart of God. Black Elk prays through tears, "Oh,…

II.186.jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" or for unrealized sculpture featuring sheep with satyr. Sketches on verso feature seated female nude, possibly for "Susanna and the…

II.187'.jpg
Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

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…

II.188.jpg
Graphite on paper
5" x 8"

Sketch of Virgin and Unicorn with apple, possible early sketch for "The Princess and the Unicorn".

II.201.jpg
Graphite on tracing paper
8.5" x 11"

“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not…

II.202.jpg
Graphite on paper
5" x 8"

Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Flying Pterodactyls" and "The Friendly Dragon". Sketches may be early concepts for the sculpture outside the Holden Museum of Living Reptiles at the Detroit Zoological Institute.

II.206.jpg
Graphite on steno pad paper
6" x 9"

Possibly unrealized.

II.207.jpg
Graphite and ink on sketchbook paper
5" x 2"

Fredericks received this commission as a result of an honorable mention in a section of Fine Arts Competition at the World’s Fair in New York in 1939. He carved the original limestone relief that was…

II.208.jpg
Graphite and ink on perforated sketchbook paper
7" x 5"

Fredericks received this commission as a result of an honorable mention in a section of Fine Arts Competition at the World’s Fair in New York in 1939. He carved the original limestone…
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