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"The Boy and Bear" at Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan. Designed by Victor Gruen, Northland is one of the world's first shopping centers.

Limestone and gilt bronze, 8 1/2 feet.

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"The Boy and Bear" at Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan. Designed by Victor Gruen, Northland is one of the world's first shopping centers.

Limestone and gilt bronze, 8 1/2 feet.

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"The Boy and Bear" at Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan. Designed by Victor Gruen, Northland is one of the world's first shopping centers.

Limestone and gilt bronze, 8 1/2 feet.

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Pencil on tracing paper
6" x 10.75"

The Boy and Bear was commissioned by the J. L. Hudson Company for architect Victor Gruen’s Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan; at the time, Northland was only the second open-air pedestrian…

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The Boy and Bear, 1954
Plaster original

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
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Fredericks was one of six artists commissioned by the J.L. Hudson Company to design sculpture for Northland Center in Southfield, Michigan. At the…

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Fredericks was one of six artists commissioned to design sculpture for Northland Shopping Center in Southfield. At the time it opened in 1954, Northland was the country's largest shopping center as well as the first regional shopping center. The…

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The Boy and Bear, 1954
Maquette
Bronze, cast c. 1987

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1991.134

Fredericks was one of six artists commissioned to design sculpture for Northland Shopping Center in Southfield. At the time it opened…

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Bronze small-scale model. Posthumously cast Boy and Bear. Foundry and edition marks and A.P. stamped/ inscribed in bronze; also, interior edition mark stamped in bronze.
Fredericks was one of six artists commissioned by the J.L. Hudson Company to…

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Plaster mother mold with inner rubber mold and plaster core. Written on mold is "Boy and Bear mould, bad mould". Two sections banded together with plastic zip tie.

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Pencil on tracing paper
9" x 11.75"

The Boy and Bear was commissioned by the J. L. Hudson Company for architect Victor Gruen’s Northland Shopping Center in Southfield, Michigan; at the time, Northland was only the second open-air pedestrian…
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