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View of the plaster model for Thoroughbreds, Sheep and Tobacco Farmers for Spirit of Kentucky in the studio.jpg
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…

View of 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…

Item #796.jpg
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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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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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 of mountain goats and bighorn sheep, possibly early concept for "Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain" on Belle Isle or "Siberian Ram".

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…

Item-#7606.jpg
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…

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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…

Item #6317.jpg
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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