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Seven sheep depicted in this relief. Plaster model relief.

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Graphite on tracing paper
9" x 3.75"

Fredericks received this commission as a result of an honorable mention in the Section of Fine Arts World's Fair Competition. Completed under the Section of Fine Arts Public Buildings Administration Federal…

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Graphite on paper
8.5" x 11.25"

Fredericks designed this series for a national products competition in 1939 in hopes that they would be placed on a government building in Washington DC, but the building was never built. The series consisted of 12…

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Graphite on tracing paper
10.25" x 10.25"

Cast in bronze in 1955, "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" depicts a flock of seven foreshortened sheep staring straight ahead at the viewer. Two smaller sheep, possibly lambs, are included in the bottom…

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Blueline print
11" x 8.5"

Cast in bronze in 1955, "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" depicts a flock of seven foreshortened sheep staring straight ahead at the viewer. Two smaller sheep, possibly lambs, are included in the bottom right hand…

The plaster model for Thoroughbreds, Sheep and Tobacco Farmers for Spirit of Kentucky.tif
Collectively titled the Spirit of Kentucky, Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal commissioned Fredericks to design reliefs for their new building.

After Fredericks received the commission he reportedly traveled through…

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Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches of mountain goats and bighorn sheep, possibly early concept for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" on Belle Isle or "Siberian Ram".

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Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" or for unrealized sculpture featuring sheep with satyr.

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Pencil on yellow drawing paper
5.5" x 8.5"

Unidentified sketches, possibly for "Sheep (The Guests Have Arrived)" or for unrealized sculpture featuring sheep with satyr. Sketches on verso feature seated female nude, possibly for "Susanna and the…

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Installed on the front of the Central United Methodist Church in Waterford, Michigan, Fredericks cast this gold anodized sculpture in aluminum.

The idea for this sculpture began during the summer of 1961 during a conversation with the minister…
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