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Detail from Motion in Nature with birds, swans, gazelles, and hounds. Plaster outer mold with rubber inner mold and plaster core.

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Bird, armature, 1970
Metal and wood

These armatures and maquettes illustrate the common working practices of traditional figurative sculptors like Fredericks. He fashioned the armatures from flexible wire and sheet metal to support the clay he…

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Animal Kingdoms

Fish Kingdom, 1987
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Mammal Kingdom (seal), 1987
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Reptile Kingdom…

Armatures and maquettes for sculptures on display in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.tif
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,…

A display of armatures and maquettes in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.tif
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,…

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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,…

View of small-scale bronze Wings of the Morning at an unidentified private residence.tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

Small-scale bronze Wings of the Morning at an unidentified private residence.tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

View from below of bronze Wings of the Morning at an unidentified location.jpg
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…

Close-up view of Wings of the Morning at an unidentified location.tif
The flying swans represent the atmosphere of the unfolding morning. Fredericks often used swans in his sculptures to symbolize eternal life. The hand of God enfolds the spirit of man as he takes the wings of the morning. The upward flowing contours…
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