Rubber mold with plaster mother mold with plaster filler. Written on mold is "Baboon with Mandolin stall A". Mold halves held together with rubber band.
Plaster model of a seated baboon playing a mandolin. He is strumming with his proper left hand. Plaster was painted or plated at one time and is now bubbling up reacting to the plaster.
Plaster models of "Baboon and Baby Chimpanzee" and "Baboon Playing a Mandolin" in Marshall Fredericks' Bloomfield Hills (Greenhouse), Michigan studio. Bronze castings of these two works are in the children's garden, Community House, Birmingham,…