Patinated plaster. This is a sketch model for the 1938 Radio City Music Hall Competition. Plaster relief model with oak frame. 2 female nude figures in center with raised arms Bottom has continuous relief of airplanes, men taking photos, men at…
Raccoon, Heron and Fish, maquette, 1975
Metal, wood and plaster
These armatures and maquettes illustrate the common working practices of traditional figurative sculptors like Fredericks. He fashioned the armatures from flexible wire and sheet…
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,…