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Danish Embassy - Nordic Swan and the Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen Fountain) surrounded by flowers.tif.tif
This sculpture represents Fredericks' interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's popular story, The Ugly Duckling. Unlike Fredericks' portrayals of other literary subjects, this sculpture illustrates not one moment in the story, but two.…

Danish Embassy - Nordic Swan and the Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen Fountain.tif
This sculpture represents Fredericks' interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's popular story, The Ugly Duckling. Unlike Fredericks' portrayals of other literary subjects, this sculpture illustrates not one moment in the story, but two.…

Danish Embassy in Washington D.C. - Bronze Nordic Swan and the Ugly Ducklings (Hans Christian Andersen Fountain) - side view.tif
This sculpture represents Fredericks' interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's popular story, The Ugly Duckling. Unlike Fredericks' portrayals of other literary subjects, this sculpture illustrates not one moment in the story, but two.…

Danish Village - Nordic Swan and the Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen Fountain.jpg
This sculpture represents Fredericks' interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's popular story, The Ugly Duckling. Unlike Fredericks' portrayals of other literary subjects, this sculpture illustrates not one moment in the story, but two.…

Danish Village - Nordic Swan and the Ugly Duckling (Hans Christian Andersen Fountain) - front view.jpg
This sculpture represents Fredericks' interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's popular story, The Ugly Duckling. Unlike Fredericks' portrayals of other literary subjects, this sculpture illustrates not one moment in the story, but two.…

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Plaster relief portrait. Signed under proper right shoulder.


Education

In 1917, Dennison entered Swarthmore College, where he graduated in 1921. He then went to the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, for graduate studies in physics with…

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Blank with clay stain portrait of David Mathias Dennison. The yellowish discoloring is from shellac used to seal the plaster.

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Day, from the Night and Day Fountain, 1962
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1991.021

The Night and Day Fountain was commissioned for the Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Michigan. Fredericks also…

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Plaster cast of the face of Mayor Cobo sometime shortly after his death.

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Based on a 1946 sketch by Carl Milles for a peace monument intended for the United Nations Building in New York, Fredericks’ enlargement now stands at the entrance to Stockholm Harbor, a project spearheaded by Cilla Jahn, in collaboration with…
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