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Leaping Gazelle

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Leaping Gazelle
​TITLE: Leaping Gazelle
​ARTIST:  Marshall M. Fredericks
DATE: 1988
TYPE: Sculpture
MEDIA: Bronze
 
ABOUT: 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.

Leaping Gazelle is the first commission Fredericks received and it initiated his career as a distinguished public sculptor.  

​LOCATION: Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan
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