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Ugly Duckling, armature, 1960
Metal and wood

These armatures and maquettes illustrate the common working practices of traditional figurative sculptors like Fredericks. He fashioned the armatures from flexible wire and sheet metal to support the…

Model for 21 foot sculpture on the John Weld Peck Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. This aluminum eagle mounted on wood, has wings spread and holds in his talons stalks of wheat in one talon and arrows in the other.

Plaster, sheet metal and metal wire maquette for the Indian and Wild Swans. The plaster has been painted a copper color and is mounted on a stained wood board. There is also a smaller maquette on the same board of the Indian with all four swans.

INDIAN AND BUFFALO, 1938
Bronze, marble base

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.054

PIONEER WOMAN AND OX, 1938
Bronze, marble base

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.053

Two Bears, maquette, 1965
Bronze

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.052

Eve
1937
Bronze with gilded apple

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.051



The body language of EVE reveals her inner conflict as she gazes down at the bright, shiny apple. EVE stands in an unbalanced, almost awkward pose. …

Black Elk: Homage to the Great Spirit
1980
Bronze

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.050




Black Elk (1863-1950) was a holy man of the Ogallala Sioux and a spiritual leader for all North American Indians. Black Elk Speaks,…

American Eagle, 1975
broach
Silver

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.047

Wings of the Morning, 1975
broach
Silver

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall M. Fredericks
1994.048