Sketch for "Leaping Gazelle"
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Title
Sketch for "Leaping Gazelle"
Subject
Barbour, Levi L. (Levi Lewis), 1840-1925
Drawing, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Drawing, American--20th century.
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Description
Pencil on tracing paper
11.5" x 18"
In 1936, Fredericks won a National Award Competition to design a fountain for the Levi L. Barbour Memorial, located on Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Mounted 16 feet high on a granite pedestal, the bronze sculpture sits in a fountain basin. Four small carved granite animals surround the gazelle.
Fredericks said: “I used this gazelle which to me has always been…sort of the perfection of the four-leggeds. …[I]t’s just a marvelous expression of the animal kingdom, and the lines of it are so beautiful and it just seemed to set itself up as a natural in that marvelous natural environment [of] Belle Isle.â€
Leaping Gazelle is the first commission Fredericks received and it initiated his career as a distinguished public sculptor.
Drawing also includes sketch for "Baboon Fountain (Board of Directors Fountain)" created for the Glass Industries Building at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadow, New York.
11.5" x 18"
In 1936, Fredericks won a National Award Competition to design a fountain for the Levi L. Barbour Memorial, located on Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Mounted 16 feet high on a granite pedestal, the bronze sculpture sits in a fountain basin. Four small carved granite animals surround the gazelle.
Fredericks said: “I used this gazelle which to me has always been…sort of the perfection of the four-leggeds. …[I]t’s just a marvelous expression of the animal kingdom, and the lines of it are so beautiful and it just seemed to set itself up as a natural in that marvelous natural environment [of] Belle Isle.â€
Leaping Gazelle is the first commission Fredericks received and it initiated his career as a distinguished public sculptor.
Drawing also includes sketch for "Baboon Fountain (Board of Directors Fountain)" created for the Glass Industries Building at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadow, New York.
Creator
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998
Source
Marshall M. Fredericks Papers
Series VIII, Cabinet 1 Drawer 2 Folder 6
Series VIII, Cabinet 1 Drawer 2 Folder 6
Date
1936
Rights
Use of this image requires permission from the Marshall M. Fredericks Archives.
Relation
VIII-01-02-06
Format
image/jpeg
Type
Pencil drawing
Identifier
VIII.1998.001.502
Drawing Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Pencil drawing
Physical Dimensions
11.5" x 18"
Files
Collection
Citation
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998, “Sketch for "Leaping Gazelle",” Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, accessed April 26, 2024, https://omeka.svsu.edu/items/show/6255.