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The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at the entrance…

Marshall Fredericks, Hugh Breneman and Alden B. Dow with a small-scale The Spirit of Detroit.jpg
The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at the entrance…

Small-scale bronze of The Spirit of Detroit inside presentation box.jpg
1958, small-scale refined model, bronze and gilt bronze, 10 1/2 inches.

Presented to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower during his visit to Detroit for the National Auto Show, October 17, 1963.

The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the…

Small-scale bronze of The Spirit of Detroit with presentation box.jpg
1958, small-scale refined model, bronze and gilt bronze, 10 1/2 inches.

Presented to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower during his visit to Detroit for the National Auto Show, October 17, 1963.

The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the…

Rear view of small-scale bronze of The Spirit of Detroit with signature.jpg
The erection of The Spirit of Detroit at the City-County Building (now Coleman A. Young Municipal Center) in 1958 marked the formal completion of the structure whose construction began in 1951. Located in front of a white marble wall at the entrance…

Small-scale plaster model for Siberian Ram.tif
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.

Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…

Full-scale plaster, small-scale plaster and plasteline reduction of Siberian Ram.tif
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.

Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…

Three versions of Siberian Ram full-scale plaster; original small-scale plaster, and plasteline reduction.tif
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.

Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…

Small-scale bronze Siberian Ram.jpg
Fredericks first completed Siberian Ram in 1941, but a 24-inch tall sculpture installed in 1966 at the rose garden of the Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan is the first documented bronze cast.

Fredericks carved a Siberian Ram in limestone…

Small-scale Saints and Sinners.jpg
Fredericks created the thirty-inch tall The Saints and Sinners in 1939 while at Cranbrook.

These seven figures are in the style of jamb statues found in the portals of Gothic cathedrals. Attached to columns, sculptors lengthened these figures…
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