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View of reliefs installed in the Marshall M. Fredericks Museum
Mrs. Dorothy (Honey) Arbury studied with Fredericks when she attended Kingswood School at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the 1930s. She met him through her uncle, Alden B. Dow, a prominent architect in Midland,…
View of rear entrance to the Arbury Fine Arts Center and the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum - 1988
Mrs. Dorothy (Honey) Arbury studied with Fredericks when she attended Kingswood School at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in the 1930s. She met him through her uncle, Alden B. Dow, a prominent architect in Midland,…
View of rainbow arc and bronze God from "God on the Rainbow" (Gud Fader På Himmelsbågan)
Based on a 1946 sketch by Carl Milles for a peace monument intended for the United Nations Building in New York, Fredericks’ enlargement now stands at the entrance to Stockholm Harbor, a project spearheaded by Cilla Jahn, in collaboration with…
View of pylons at the Veterans Memorial Building
The Victory Eagle on the facade of the Veterans Memorial Building in Detroit is 30 feet high and projects 4½ feet from the wall in high relief. Seven free-standing pylons were originally placed in front of the building along the walkway leading to…
View of pool with "Persephone" (Bacchante) in the background
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In Greek mythology, Persephone was the goddess of spring. Following her abduction to the Underworld by Hades, Persephone’s mother Demeter attempted to rescue her. After discovering Persephone had eaten a pomegranate seed and was therefore unable…
View of pool at an unidentified private residence with "Flying Wild Geese" and mountains in the background
Atop a wooded hill overlooking a small pond in Detroit’s Elmwood Cemetery stands a memorial to the late attorney turned industrialist Alvan Macauley. Commissioned by his wife and son soon after his death in 1952, the sculpture reflects Macauley’s…
View of plaster molds for "Acrobat" clown with ladder
The plaster model and molds for "Acrobat†– one of the “Clowns†in Marshall Fredericks’ greenhouse studio.
View of plaster molds and models for "Clowns" in Fredericks' greenhouse studio
Plaster models and molds for the “Clowns†- includes: "Acrobat", "Juggler" and "Lovesick Clown (Pagliacci)".
View of plaster mold for "Lord Byron" (The Poet)
According to MaryAnn Wilkinson, former curator of modern and contemporary art at The Detroit Institute of Arts, “His last monumental work, Lord Byron, designed in 1938, enlarged by the artist, and cast posthumously in 1998 for the Marshall…
View of plaster models of the central figure for the "Cleveland War Memorial" in "Marshall Fredericks: An Exhibition of His Sculpture"
"Marshall Fredericks: An Exhibition of His Sculpture" at the Robert L. Kidd Associates/Galleries in Birmingham, Michigan - November 10-December 3, 1994.