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Side view of "Flying Pterodactyls" in need of conservation

Bronze on granite, 16 feet including base. Located at the Holden Museum of Living Reptiles, Detroit Zoological Institute, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Tags: Animal, Animal Sculpture, Bronze, Bronze Sculpture, Detroit Zoological Institute, Flying Pterodactyls, Holden Museum of Living Reptiles, Michigan, Outdoor, Outdoor Sculpture, Pterodactyls, Public, Public Sculpture, Royal Oak, Sculpture, V1033, Weathering

Side view of "Flying Pterodactyls"

Bronze on granite, 16 feet including base. Located at the Holden Museum of Living Reptiles, Detroit Zoological Institute, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Tags: Animal, Animal Sculpture, Bronze, Bronze Sculpture, Detroit Zoological Institute, Flying Pterodactyls, Holden Museum of Living Reptiles, Michigan, Outdoor, Outdoor Sculpture, Pterodactyls, Public, Public Sculpture, Royal Oak, Sculpture, V1029

Side view of "Flying Gulls Fountain" with clock in background

This delicately balanced sculpture is evidence of Fredericks' expertise in design and structural engineering. The openness and verticality of the composition are very dramatic.

The large gulls appear weightless, held in place only by a wing tip,…

Tags: Aluminum, Aluminum Sculpture, Animal, Animal Sculpture, Bird, Flying Gulls, Flying Gulls Fountain, Fountain, Gull, Gulls, Outdoor Sculpture, Public Sculpture, Sculpture, V1027

Side view of "Floyd Starr" at the foundry

1990, bronze, 31 inches. Sculpture is located at Starr Commonwealth in Albion, Michigan.

Tags: Bronze, Bronze Portrait, Bronze Sculpture, Bust, Floyd Starr, Foundry, Portrait, Portrait Sculpture, Sculpture, V2122

Side view of "Don Quixote" in the Sculpture Garden of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at dusk

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,…

Tags: Bronze, Bronze Sculpture, Don Quixote, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Marshall M. Fredicks Museum Sculpture Garden, Saginaw Valley State University, Sculpture, Sculpture Garden, SVSU, V2614

Side view of "Day" from "Night and Day Fountain" on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University

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,…

Tags: Bronze, Bronze Sculpture, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Marshall M. Fredicks Museum Sculpture Garden, Night and Day Fountain, Saginaw Valley State University, Sculpture, Sculpture Garden, SVSU, V2614

Side view of "Christ on the Cross" with visitors climbing the Holy Stairs

Considered by Fredericks to be â€œhis greatest challenge,â€ the figure of Christ took him four years to complete. Funded by contributions from over 10,000 summer visitors to the shrine, the twenty-eight foot corpus symbolizes a Christ on the cross…

Tags: Bronze, Bronze Sculpture, Christ, Christ on the Cross, Cross, Crucifixion, Figure, Figure sculpture, Indian River, Indian River Catholic Shrine, Jesus Christ, Michigan, Sculpture, V0606

Side view of "Christ on the Cross" at K & M Machine - Fabricating Inc. during repairs

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,…

Tags: Christ, Christ on the Cross, Crucifixion, Fabricating, Figure sculpture, Jesus Christ, K & M Machine, Model, Plaster, Plaster Model, V2505