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Marc Joslyn Memorial (Young Knight).tif
Dedicated in 1954 in memory of Marc Joslyn. Located at Birmingham Seaholm High School, Birmingham, Michigan.

Memorial to Norwegian Emigrants (Leaping Gazelle.jpg
In 1936, Marshall Fredericks entered a national competition to design a memorial honoring Levi L. Barbour for Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Barbour, a prominent lawyer who had been instrumental in the purchase of the island as a…

Memorial to Norwegian Emigrants (Leaping Gazelle) in Stavanger, Norway.tif
In 1936, Marshall Fredericks entered a national competition to design a memorial honoring Levi L. Barbour for Belle Isle, an island park in Detroit, Michigan. Barbour, a prominent lawyer who had been instrumental in the purchase of the island as a…

Mercury.jpg
The Roman god Mercury was a messenger for the gods and patron of racing and athletes. His special duty was to conduct the souls of the dead to the underworld. In time he also became the Roman god of commerce and merchants. His attributes were…

Mercury atop a pedestal.jpg
The Roman god Mercury was a messenger for the gods and patron of racing and athletes. His special duty was to conduct the souls of the dead to the underworld. In time he also became the Roman god of commerce and merchants. His attributes were…

Michigan Horticultural Society Medal.jpg
1941, minted in bronze, gold fill, and silver, diameter 3 inches, Michigan Horticultural Society, East Lansing, Michigan.

Face: Bas-relief of sun and rain behind man planting a tree.

Reverse: Inscription, "Michigan Horticultural Society," with…

Mouse from The Lion and Mouse.jpg
"The Lion and Mouse" was commissioned by the J. L. Hudson Company for the Eastland Mall in Harper Woods, Michigan. The lion is carved from limestone and the mouse is gold-plated bronze. Fredericks based this sculpture on the Aesop (c. 620 - c.…

Night and Day Fountain, The Lion and Mouse and Two Sisters in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Sculpture Garden.tif
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,…

Night and Day Fountain.jpg
The Henry J. McMorran Auditorium in Port Huron, Michigan commissioned the Night and Day Fountain as well as a gold anodized aluminum Sculptured Clock for the building. Completed two years before the fountain’s installation, Fredericks conceived…
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