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Plaster model for "Portrait of Jean Raseman"
1933, plaster, 11 inches.
Plaster model for "Persephone" (Bacchante)
In Greek mythology, Persephone was the goddess of spring. Following her abduction to the Underworld by Hades, Persephone’s mother Demeter attempted to rescue her. After discovering Persephone had eaten a pomegranate seed and was therefore unable…
Plaster model for "Night" from "Night and Day Fountain" illuminated in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
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,…
Plaster model for "Mankind and Primates (The Family of Man)" in studio
The aluminum relief is located in the Holden Amphitheater and Great Ape House at the Detroit Zoological Institute.
Note: The building was replaced by a new primate center in the 1980s
Note: The building was replaced by a new primate center in the 1980s
Plaster model for "Justice is Served While Employing Compassion and Kindness"
Plaster model part of the "Family and Justice Reliefs," five scenes in fourteen courtrooms, City-County Building (now the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center), Detroit.
Plaster model for "Justice Encompasses Knowledge and Technology"
Plaster model part of the "Family and Justice Reliefs," five scenes in fourteen courtrooms, City-County Building (now the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center), Detroit.
Plaster model for "Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Medallion"
1965, minted in bronze and silver, diameter 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 inches, issued by the National Park Service and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association in connection with Eero Saarinen and Associates.
Face: Inscription, "Jefferson…
Face: Inscription, "Jefferson…
Plaster model for "Great Seal of the United States"
The medal features an American eagle, with an escutcheon, or shield, on its breast symbolizes self-reliance. The thirteen vertical stripes on the escutcheon derive from the flag of 1777. The eagle grasps an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 olives…
Plaster model for "God on the Rainbow" (Gud Fader På Himmelsbågan)
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…
Plaster model for "French Explorer"
One of a series of four reliefs created by Fredericks as part of a competition for a government building commission in Louisiana. The state’s rich heritage provided Fredericks’ with the themes for these reliefs: the Mississippi River, French…