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RIVER BOATS AND GIANT CATFISH,
full-size model, 1948
Plaster original painted green

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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RACCOONS, full-size model, 1948
Plaster original painted green

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Victory Eagle (American Eagle), 1950
Plaster Original

The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally…

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THE FAMILY (FARM ANIMALS), 1941
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Fredericks received this commission as a result of an honorable mention in the Section of Fine Arts World's Fair Competition. The…

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Steers, 1939
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Marshall designed the series for a national competition in 1939 in hopes that they would be placed on a government building in Washington DC, but the…

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Marshall designed the series for a national competition in 1939 hopes that they would be placed on a government building in Washington DC, but the building was never built. The series consisted of 12 reliefs. Three are in the museum; Cotton Pickers,…

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Horseless Carriage (Model S. Ford, Children and Animals Sunday Afternoon), 1939
Plaster original

Fredericks designed and carved the original limestone relief that was placed in the public lobby of the Post Office in River Rouge, Michigan. He…

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Plaster relief ogf an eagle with wings upward in flight. The composition is angular with hard lines. There are several stars on the otherwise flat background.
The American Eagle was created for the John Weld Peck Federal Building in Cincinnati,…

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Friendly Frog, 1970
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Fredericks designed this large, friendly, appealing sculpture as a children's slide. The original cast of this sculpture was located at the Hudson…

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Male Baboon, 1939
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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This is the full-scale model of one figure for Fredericks' Baboon Fountain for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, New York. The five baboons…
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