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Pen and ink on paper
6.5" x 10.5"

Drawing completed by Fredericks while traveling abroad in Morocco, 1931 of a man in a fez with a stick or cane. Two pencil sketches on the right and two brown, black, and red drawing on the left.

Mixed media, pencil, ink, and conté crayon on paper
8.875" x 9.75"

Double-sided drawing completed by Fredericks while traveling abroad in Morocco, 1931.

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,…

Moray Eel and Fish, 1941
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1991.049

While at Cranbrook, Fredericks designed and carved this sculpture to catch water for birds. It was reported that his mentor Carl Milles wrote a…

Gold lyre with three birds flying from strings on multilevel octagonal wood base. This is a model for a sculpture that might have never been realized.

Arrowhead on wood and marble base. Appears to be a cast resin.

Arrowhead on wood base. Appears to be a cast resin.

Small plaster monkey head that is more natural and realistic looking than the stylized chimpanzees, and baboons that Fredericks often made.

Bronze "Acrobat" – one of the “Clowns” at Saginaw Valley State University.

Bronze "Acrobat" – one of the “Clowns” at Saginaw Valley State University.

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