Nobuji Yoshida [Bronze]

Nobuji Yoshida [Bronze]

Figure sculpture, American--20th century

"Many will recall the "Portrait of A Japanese," a bronze by young Marshall Fredericks which took the first prize for sculpture in the May show at the Cleveland Museum of Art last Spring. The inspiration for the head came from a Japanese student with whom he had lived while studying abroad. Both were scholarship winners. Mr. Fredericks had been awarded the Matzen Fellowship for a year's foreign study at the close of his senior year. The Japanese boy, strangely enough, had been a student of Henry Hunt Clark, the new director of the Art School in Boston."

Taken from - The Bystander, November 7, 1931 (Archive Series VI)

Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998

1931

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Sculpture

University Center (Mich.)

14" h

Bronze

1994.013

Main Exhibit Gallery

05/26/1994 gifted to MFSM

From Jennifer Lentz (Collection Documentation Intern 1991-1992)

Memo dated October 23, 1991:

"RE: Portrait of a German Philosopher, Nubujii Yoshida, Portrait of Lloyd Westbrook (Portrait of a Young Man)
All of these were done in 1931 while Fredericks was in Germany and he had them shipped back to the United States when he returned. Lloyd Westbrook was his roommate for a time in Germany. I think that the portrait head of a German Philosopher was also done in Germany. It was done in 1931."