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| Title of Piece: |
LS&A Building Facade Bas Reliefs |
| Artist: |
Marshall Fredericks |
| Acquired: |
1948 |
| Material(s): |
Polished aluminum (30 pieces) & limestone (7 pieces) |
| Category: |
Architectural Feature |
| Location: |
Facades of the LS&A Building |
| Comments: |
The subjects of the seven stone reliefs are Naturalist, Adventurers, Scientists, Musicians, Hiawatha, Aesop’s Fables & a Student Motif. The 30 smaller reliefs of aluminum represent various subjects including God, Nature & Man; many are purely decorative; and two groups of baboons symbolizing Music & Science are just for fun. Fredericks is also the sculptor of the two larger bronze reliefs formerly on the east facade of LS&A and now at Bentley Library (Dream of the Young Girl & Dream of the Young Man). Fredericks, who worked as an assistant to Carl Milles at Cranbrook and taught there ten years, is also the sculptor of the American Eagle at Michigan Stadium, and the bas reliefs on the Rackham Educational Memorial in Detroit as well as bronze busts of several prominent faculty members. |
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