Browse Items (27 total)

Graphite on perforated steno pad paper
6" x 9"

Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Persephone (Bacchante)" and Sun Dial Airport Beacon.

Graphite on board
8" x 6.5"

Unidentified sketch of knight, possibly for "Warrior Saint" or "Young Knight".

Graphite on card stock
3.25" x 5.5"

Unidentified sketch of bases, possibly for "Baboon Fountain (Board of Directors Fountain)" for the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Ink on paper
5" x 5.25"

Unidentified sketch of hand holding orb, possibly unrealized.

Graphite and ink on paper
3.5" x 6"

Sketches of various unidentified medallions, including Cadillac and Pontiac, Women's Club Exhibition and St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild.

Possibly unrealized.

Graphite on steno pad paper
6" x 9"

Possibly unrealized.

Graphite on tracing paper
9" x 12"

During the 1950s, Fredericks worked with automobile companies, designing hood ornaments for Chrysler Motors, General Motors Corporation, and Studebaker-Packard Corporation.

Ink on tracing paper
8.75" x 5.25"

1949, German silver, 30 x 16 1/2 inches, part of War Memorial at Ottawa Hills School, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Graphite and ink on typing paper
8.5" x 11"

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…

Graphite on paper
5" x 8"

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…