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"Animal Kindgdoms" Armature - Front view
Front view of the armature for one of the four sculptures in "Animal Kingdoms".
"Animal Kingdoms - Bird" Armature - Alternate side view
Armature for "Bird" - one of the four sculptures in "Animal Kingdoms".
"Animal Kingdoms - Bird" Armature - Front/side view
Armature for "Bird" - one of the four sculptures in "Animal Kingdoms".
"Animal Kingdoms" Armature - 3/4 Front/side view
Front/side view of the armature for one of the four sculptures in "Animal Kingdoms".
"Animal Kingdoms" Armature - Rear view
Rear view of the armature for one of the four sculptures in "Animal Kingdoms".
"Animal Kingdoms" Armature - Side view
Side view of the armature for one of the four sculptures in "Animal Kingdoms".
"Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" Full-scale armature
Armature for full-scale sculpture "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills, Michigan studio.
"The Friendly Dragon armature covered in wooden lathe
“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not an ugly dragon, it's a friendly dragon…
"The Friendly Dragon" - plasteline head, plaster body with a portion of the armature visible
“I did … a dragon; I called it The Friendly Dragon. The architect said he didn't think he would use it because he said the children would be frightened of a dragon. But children love dragons and it's not an ugly dragon, it's a friendly dragon…
A display of armatures and maquettes 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,…