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Small plaster Lord Byron with a shellac coating on a wood base.

"His last monumental work, Lord Byron, designed in 1938, enlarged by the artist, and cast posthumously in 1998 for the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum paradoxically seems to refer back to Fredericks's earliest influences. This literary figure,…

Mold for the small scale Lord Byron. Plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold and plaster core.

Objects 2000.023.001, 2000.023.002, 2000.023.003, 2000.023.004, 2000.023.005, 2000.023.006, 2000.023.007 are the sections of the Lord Byron plaster Full-Scale model.

"His last monumental work, Lord Byron, designed in 1938, enlarged by the artist,…

Metal rod for Full-Scale clay Lord Byron. This was used for support for the armature and Full-Scale clay model.

"His last monumental work, Lord Byron, designed in 1938, enlarged by the artist, and cast posthumously in 1998 for the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum paradoxically seems to refer back to Fredericks's earliest influences. This literary figure,…

Six sections from the full-scale mold for The Poet: Lord Byron. The yellowish discoloring is from shellac used to seal the plaster.

Full size bronze of Lord Byron. Man with long coat with proper right arm raised to his head. Proper left arm is inside coat. His head is tilted back with a look of angst or euphoria on his face. This was the final sculpture of Fredericks which was…

LORD BYRON, 1938
Bronze, cast c. 1985

When Fredericks was a teenager his inspiration was Lord Byron, the nineteenth-century Romantic poet who became associated with a haughty, melancholy mood. Fredericks presents Lord Byron in a dramatic pose…

Located on the northwest corner of Normandy and Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Michigan, the building served as Fredericks' studio for over 50 years.