Avard Fairbanks

Avard Tennyson Fairbanks was born on March 2, 1897, in Provo, Utah.{{cite news |last1=Woolley |first1=Athelia T. |title=Art to Edify: The Work of Avard T. Fairbanks |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1987/09/art-to-edify-the-work-of-avard-t-fairbanks?lang=eng |access-date=June 6, 2019 |work=Ensign |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |date=September 1987}} He was the last and eleventh child of the artist John B Fairbanks and Lilly Annetta Huish.{{cite book |last1=Fairbanks |first1=Lorenzo Sayles |title=Genealogy of the Fairbanks family in America, 1633-1897 |date=1897 |publisher=American Printing and Engraving Company |location=Boston |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rbJ3WLoOEo0C/page/n838 787] |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rbJ3WLoOEo0C |quote=john b fairbanks genealogy. |access-date=June 7, 2019}} Fairbanks was introduced to art by his father and his brother, John Leo Fairbanks. His first piece of art was a small, clay rabbit that won first prize in the 1909 Utah State Fair. However, after the judge learned of Fairbanks's young age, he revoked the prize.{{cite book |last1=Fairbanks |first1=Eugene F. |title=A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone: The Sacred Sculpture of Avard T. Fairbanks |date=1972 |publisher=Publisher's Press |location=Salt Lake City, Utah}}{{rp|1}} Fairbanks joined his father in New York City to copy art pieces at the Metropolitan Museum, where he was reluctantly received by the curators due to his inexperience. However, he showed great skill and was called a "young Michelangelo" by the New York Herald, which led to other commissions such as animal models for the Bronx Zoological Gardens.{{rp|1}} There, he was instructed by Anna Hyatt Huntington and Charles R. Knight.{{rp|2}}

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He attended the Art Students League of New York on scholarship at age 13, instructed by James Earle Fraser.{{cite book |editor1-last=Garr |editor1-first=Arnold K. |editor2-last=Cannon |editor2-first=Donald Q. |editor3-last=Cowan |editor3-first=Richard O. |title=Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History |date=2000 |publisher=Desert Book Company |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |isbn=1573458228 |pages=355–356 |chapter=Fairbanks, Avard}} By the age of 14, his art was displayed at the National Academy of Design.{{rp|2}} He returned to Utah after 18 months studying in New York, to prepare to study art abroad. Fairbanks and his father tried to obtain as many commissions as possible to pay for his study abroad.{{rp|2}} Among these commissions was a lion he sculpted out of butter for the Utah State Fair, channeling the butter sculpture fable of Antonio Canova.{{rp|145}} This sculpture attracted a large audience and was well received.{{rp|2}}

In 1913, Fairbanks studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, instructed by Jean Antoine Injalbert.{{rp|2}} Additionally, he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, the Académie Colarossi, and the École Moderne.{{rp|2}} He became the youngest student admitted to the French Salon; however, his studies were cut short due to World War I. Fairbanks and his father escaped Europe on the last train out of Paris and the last spots available on the boat Ansonia leaving Liverpool, returning to New York with only fifteen cents between the two of them.{{rp|2}}

After returning from Paris, Fairbanks continued his artistry in Utah, focusing on clay modeling while completing high school. Some of his pieces were displayed in the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in the Palace of Fine Arts.{{rp|2}} In 1915, he received his first major commission sculpting statues and an elaborate frieze on the Laie Hawaii Temple for the LDS Church with his brother, J. Leo. His romantic interest, Beatrice Maude Fox, from Taylorsville, Utah, joined him in Hawaii.{{rp|2}} They married on June 25, 1918, in Honolulu, Hawaii.{{Cite archival metadata |author = John Murphy |title = Avard T. Fairbanks papers |url = http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/93 |repository = L. Tom Perry Special Collections |location = Provo, UT |date = 2007 |accessdate = May 31, 2019}} After the project was finished in 1918, Fairbanks and Fox returned to Utah, where he enrolled at the University of Utah (U of U). Due to his extensive artistic training, he took other academic courses and did not complete course study in art.{{rp|2}}

In 1920, he became an assistant professor of art at the University of Oregon, teaching sculpture.{{rp|3}}{{cite book |last1=Swanson |first1=Vern g. |last2=Olpin |first2=Robert S. |last3=Poulton |first3=Donna L. |last4=Rogers |first4=Janie L. |title=Utah Art, Utah Artists: 150 Year Survey |date=2001 |publisher=Springville Museum of Art |location=Springville, Utah |isbn=158685111X |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDsALaUZapUC&q=university+of+utah+fine+arts+department+avard+fairbanks&pg=PA81 |access-date=May 31, 2019}} Fairbanks took a sabbatical to study at Yale University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and returned to instruct at University of Oregon.{{rp|3}} Fairbanks was offered a Guggenheim Fellowship to study art in Europe. Bringing his wife and four children along, he studied in England, France, and Italy; however, he spent most of his time in Florence, Italy.{{rp|3}} Fairbanks studied underneath Dante Sodini. He created work for Arciconfraternita della Misericordia during this time as well as sculptures in the theme of spring and motherhood.James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler and Michael W. Homer, Mormons in the Piazza: The Latter-day Saints in Italy (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book Company and Brigham Young University Religious Studies center, 2017), p. 201{{rp|3}} When Fairbanks returned in 1928, he taught a summer class{{cite web |title=ART INSTITUTE OF SEATTLE ANNUAL REPORT 1929-1930 |url=https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/1148 |website=Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections |publisher=Lloyd Owen Printer |access-date=1 February 2021}}{{cite web |title=ART INSTITUTE ANNOUNCEMENT June 1929 |url=https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/1146 |website=Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections |access-date=1 February 2021}} at Seattle Art Museum.{{rp|3}} In 1929, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington, where he would construct the 91st Division Monument.{{cite web |title=Avard T. Fairbanks |url=https://lib.utah.edu/collections/utah-artists/UAP-Avard-Fairbanks.php |website=J. Willard Marriott Library |publisher=The University of Utah |access-date=May 31, 2019}}{{rp|3}} In 1933, Fairbanks, joined by his father and brother, created the Mormon Display for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Fairbanks sculpted, his brother made stained glass, and his father painted.{{rp|148–149}} Fairbanks and his family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he attended medical school, earning MA and Ph.D. degrees in Anatomy in 1933 and 1936 respectively from the University of Michigan.{{rp|3}} He did this in order to better and more accurately represent the human body in his work.{{rp|89}} He began to use anatomical techniques in his subsequent artworks.{{rp|3}} He was appointed professor of sculpture at the University of Michigan in 1930 and taught sculpture there until 1948.{{cite web |title=Avard Fairbanks |url=http://utahdcc.force.com/public/PtlArtifacts?field=artApp__Artist__c&value=a0j70000000BlbeAAC&heading=Avard%20 |website=Utah Division of Arts & Museums |publisher=Utah Department of Heritage & Arts |access-date=May 31, 2019}} While Fairbanks was living in Ann Arbor, he served for a time as the president of the branch of the LDS Church there.

In 1947, Fairbanks created the Fine Arts Department at the U of U.{{cite book |editor1-last=Ludlow |editor1-first=Daniel H. |title=Encyclopedia of Mormonism |date=1992 |publisher=Macmillan Publishing Company |location=New York |isbn=0028796055 |page=1286 |url=https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/EoM/id/5432 |access-date=May 31, 2019}}{{rp|4}} He served as dean and professor of Fine Art at the College of Fine Arts at the U of U from 1948 to 1955. He retired as dean in 1955, but continued teaching at the U of U for 10 years.{{cite book |last1=Capcace |first1=Nancy |title=The Encyclopedia of Utah |date=2001 |publisher=Somerset Publishers |location=St. Clair Shores, MI |isbn=9780403096091 |pages=183–184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BE1va7KGyyEC&q=john+b+fairbanks+brigham+young+academy&pg=PA183 |access-date=June 7, 2019}} At the U of U, his conservative philosophy was that "modern abstraction was part of an international communist conspiracy."Gergts, William, introduction, essays by Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, Utah Painting and Sculpture, Gibbs, Smith Publishing. Salt Lake City, 1997p. 143Fairbanks, Eugene F., A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone: Sacred Sculpture by Avard T. Fairbanks, Publishers Press, Salt Lake City, 1972, p. 4 In 1965, he became a resident sculptor, fine arts consultant, and lecturer at the University of North Dakota (UND).{{rp|7}} After working at UND, Fairbanks retired, spending the rest of his life creating commissioned works. Fairbanks died in Salt Lake City on January 1, 1987.

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Fairbanks sculpted the statues of the Angel Moroni for the LDS Church on the Washington, D.C., Denver Colorado, Jordan River Utah, Mexico City Mexico, Seattle Washington, and São Paulo Brazil temples.{{cite news |last1=Petersen |first1=Sarah |title=A historical tour through LDS temple Angel Moroni statues |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/top/1101/7/Third-version-of-Angel-Moroni-Jordan-River-Utah-Temple-A-historical-tour-through-LDS-temple-Angel.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111180850/http://www.deseretnews.com/top/1101/7/Third-version-of-Angel-Moroni-Jordan-River-Utah-Temple-A-historical-tour-through-LDS-temple-Angel.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |access-date=May 31, 2019 |work=Deseret News |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |date=November 8, 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Grimes |first1=Stephanie |title=$80K bronze statue stolen from SLC medical plaza |url=https://www.ksl.com/article/24653660/80k-bronze-statue-stolen-from-slc-medical-plaza |access-date=May 31, 2019 |work=KSL |publisher=KSL Broadcasting |date=April 4, 2013}} Fairbanks also sculpted Tragedy of Winter Quarters in the Mormon Pioneer Cemetery at the Winter Quarters Historical Site.{{cite news |last1=Beck |first1=Gwen B. |title=55-year-old monument being restored |url=https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/1991-08-24/55-year-old-monument-being-restored-4092 |access-date=May 31, 2019 |work=Church News |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |date=August 24, 1991}}{{cite news |last1=Swensen |first1=Jason |title=LDS Church buys Winter Quarters cemetery |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/690233/LDS-Church-buys-Winter-Quarters-cemetery.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007035937/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/690233/LDS-Church-buys-Winter-Quarters-cemetery.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 7, 2018 |access-date=May 31, 2019 |work=Deseret News |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |date=April 8, 1999}} This project was particularly meaningful to him because his ancestors suffered at Winter Quarters when it was an encampment.{{cite thesis |last1=Cope |first1=Rachel |title=John B. Fairbanks: The Man Behind the Canvas |type=MA thesis |publisher=Brigham Young University |date=August 2003 |url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4620/ |access-date=June 7, 2019}}{{rp|39}}

Many of the sculptures on Temple Square in Salt Lake City are by Fairbanks, including the Three Witnesses Monument.{{cite news |last1=Dockstader |first1=Julie A. |title=Mormon values set in stone, bronze |url=https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/1992-04-04/mormon-values-set-in-stone-bronze-4872 |access-date=May 31, 2019 |work=Church News |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |date=April 4, 1992}} In 1957, his work Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood was added to Temple Square;{{cite news |author= |date=November 2, 1957 |title=Dedication Planned: Presiding Bishopric Uncovers Aaronic Priesthood Memorial On Temple Square |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6421vks/25500825 |newspaper=Church News |location=Salt Lake City |page=13 |access-date=November 19, 2024}} a relief version of this sculpture was added to the Priesthood Restoration Site in 1960.{{cite news |author= |date=June 18, 1960 |title=Presiding Bishopric's Message Marks Monument Dedication |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b04345/25410802 |newspaper=Church News |location=Salt Lake City |page=13 |access-date=November 19, 2024}} A companion piece, Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, was also created for Temple Square and was displayed in the Mormon Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.{{cite news |author= |date=June 9, 1962 |title=Commission Awarded For Bronze Monument |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w8bdh/25379104 |newspaper=Church News |location=Salt Lake City |page=3 |access-date=November 19, 2024}}Top, Brent L., "The Miracle of the Mormon Pavilion: The Church at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair" in Porter, Larry C., Milton V. Backman Jr. and Susan Easton Black, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint History: New York (Provo: BYU Department of Church History and Doctrine, 1992) p. 245

Although most of his later work was free-standing sculptures, Fairbanks did create several friezes for the Harold B. Lee Library on the Brigham Young University campus.

File: Roscoe Pound bust.jpg created by Fairbanks in 1981 for the Nebraska Hall of Fame.]]

In the 1920s, Fairbanks sculpted the St. Anthony's Doughboy which resides in Keefer Park in Idaho.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Lisa Dayley |title=Keefer Park's Doughboy to get facelift |url=https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/local/keefer-park-s-doughboy-to-get-facelift/article_6ab4e134-c966-59ec-bfd9-fd9f2f10f5f5.html |access-date=June 6, 2019 |work=Standard Journal |publisher=Rexburg Standard Journal |date=December 26, 2017}} While Fairbanks was a member of the faculty of the University of Oregon,Greenthal, Kozol, Rameirez & Fairbanks, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1986 he created his Oregon Trail sculpture. Around 1925–26, he designed several bas relief panels, cast in bronze, for large doors of the United States National Bank Building in Portland. The door's panels represent ideals of American life such as "Knowledge and Service", "Domestic Welfare", and "Progress through Direction".{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=86002842}} |format=PDF|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: United States National Bank Building |author=John M. Tess|date=December 1985|at=Item Number 7, p. 2|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2016-04-29}} [[File:United States National Bank Building, Portland, Oregon (2012) - 12.JPG|thumb|left

|upright|Two of several bronze-relief panels Fairbanks designed for the doors of the United States National Bank Building, in Portland, Oregon]]Fairbanks made a statue of Lycurgus and was consequently knighted by King Paul of Greece.{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=Danielle B. |title=4 Latter-day Saints Who Have Been Knighted |url=http://www.ldsliving.com/Mormons-Who-Have-Been-Knighted/s/84636 |access-date=June 7, 2019 |work=LDS Living |publisher=Deseret Book Company}} Other monuments he created include the Pony Express, Pioneer family (at the Bismarck State Capitol), Daniel Jackling (at the Utah State Capitol), and Prime Minister of Canada McKenzie King (at Ottawa Parliament buildings).

He also did multiple statues of Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater and the U.S. Supreme Court (including The Chicago Lincoln) and The Resolute Lincoln at Lincoln's New Salem.{{cite journal |last1=Steiner |first1=Mark E. |title=Abraham Lincoln and the Rule of Law Books |journal=Marquette Law Review |date=Fall 2009 |volume=93 |issue=1 |page=1287 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/marqlr93&id=1295&collection=journals&index= |access-date=June 7, 2019}} His statue Lincoln the Friendly Neighbor, commissioned for the anniversary of Lincoln's 150th birthday in 1959 by Lincoln Federal Savings and Loan Association of Berwyn, Illinois, sits today outside of Berwyn's Lincoln Middle School.{{Cite web |title=Lincoln the Friendly Neighbor Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=228349 |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}}

Additionally, he designed and sculpted a George Washington statue at the Washington State Capitol Building. Other prominent figures he sculpted included John Burke, Esther Morris, and Marcus Whitman, residing in the National Capitol Building. He created the Pegasus sculpture in the northeast garden at the Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester Hills, Michigan.{{cite web |title=Estate Ground |url=https://meadowbrookhall.org/about/meadow-brook-curator/ |website=Meadow Brook |publisher=Meadow Brook Hall |access-date=May 31, 2019}} He also created an Ezra Meeker bust for the University of Oregon and a tabernacle door for the Altar of St. Mary's Cathedral in Eugene, Oregon.{{cite web |title=Avard Fairbanks |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/avard-fairbanks/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=June 6, 2019}} Additionally, Fairbanks constructed a 200-pound bronze medallion to commemorate the Oregon Trail.{{cite news |last1=Schmitt |first1=Will |title=Jackson County receives 200-pound Oregon Trail medallion |url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article82350582.html |access-date=June 6, 2019 |work=The Kansas City Star |date=June 7, 2016}} He also created a bust of Roscoe Pound in 1981 for the Nebraska Hall of Fame.

File:Meadowbrook Hall Garden.jpg from the northeast garden with the Pegasus sculpture by Avard Fairbanks]]

Three of his sculptures are in the United States Capitol, two of them in National Statuary Hall and one in a corridor;Viles, Philip H. Jr., National Statuary Hall: Guidebook for a Walking Tour, Published by Philip H. Viles, Tulsa OK, 1997 seven other statues are placed in Washington, D.C. The state capitols in Washington, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, as well as numerous other locations, also have his works. Possibly his most widely distributed artistic contribution was the charging ram symbol of the Dodge automobile. Other radiator ornaments he designed included the Winged Mermaid of the Plymouth and a Griffin for the Hudson automobiles.{{rp|38}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Alexander |editor1-first=Kay |editor2-last=Day |editor2-first=Michael |title=Discipline-Based Art Education: A Curriculum Sampler |date=1991 |publisher=The J. Paul Getty Trust |location=Los Angeles, California |isbn=0892361719 |pages=F-40–45, F-53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JG8cDAAAQBAJ&q=griffin&pg=SL6-PA38 |access-date=May 31, 2019}}

Avard Fairbanks was a son of John B. Fairbanks, an artist who also had studied in Paris art academies{{cite news |last1=Florence, Jr. |first1=Giles H. |title=Harvesting the Light: The 1890 Paris Art Mission |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1988/10/harvesting-the-light-the-1890-paris-art-mission?lang=eng |access-date=May 31, 2019 |work=Ensign |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |date=October 1988}} and was briefly an art professor at Brigham Young Academy.{{cite web |last1=Warburton |first1=Brian A. |title=John B. Fairbanks |url=https://lib.byu.edu/collections/mormon-missionary-diaries/about/diarists/john-b-fairbanks/ |website=BYU Library |publisher=Brigham Young University |access-date=May 31, 2019}} His mother, Lilly Annetta Huish, died on May 12, 1898, about a year after he was born as a result of an injury related to a fall she had while she was carrying the fourteen-month-old Fairbanks.{{rp|127}}

Avard's brother, J. Leo Fairbanks, was also an artist who had studied both painting and sculpture in the Paris art academies; Fairbanks considered his brother his first instructor and his mentor.{{cite book |last1=Fairbanks |first1=Eugene F. |title=A Sculpture Garden of Fantasy |date=2001 |publisher=Elfin Cove Press |location=Bellevue, WA |isbn=0944958346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0KTG_pwI94C&q=J+Leo+fairbanks+encourage+Avard+Fairbanks&pg=PP13 |access-date=May 31, 2019}}{{rp|vii}}

Fairbanks had eight biological sons. Justin served as director of the art department at Eastern Arizona University. Jonathan Leo Fairbanks was the curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the early 1990s. Jonathan served as director of art and architecture for Salt Lake City Schools until he was appointed Professor of Art and Chairman of the Art Department at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.{{cite web |title=J. Leo Fairbanks |url=http://lib.utah.edu/collections/utah-artists/UAP-J.Leo-Fairbanks.php |website=J. Willard Marriott Library |publisher=The University of Utah |access-date=May 31, 2019}} Elliot was a dean at the College of Eastern Utah. Eugene, Virgil, David, and Grant became physicians. Avard Jr. was a physicist and inventor.{{cite news |title=Avard Fairbanks Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=avard-fairbanks&pid=141067661 |access-date=June 4, 2019 |work=Deseret News |publisher=Deseret News Publishing Company |date=March 24, 2010}} His second eldest son, Eugene F. Fairbanks, compiled 10 books using archival material to illustrate his father's sculpture career.{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=Norma S. |title=A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone: The Sacred Sculpture of Avard T. Fairbanks Review |url=https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/sculptors-testimony-bronze-and-stone-sacred-sculpture-avard-t-fairbanks |website=BYU Studies Quarterly |publisher=Brigham Young University |access-date=May 31, 2019}} According to Abbott's book, My Return, Fairbanks also briefly served as a foster parent to Jack Henry Abbott.{{cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=Jack Henry |title=My Return |date=1987 |publisher=Prometheus Books |location=Buffalo, New York |isbn=0879753552 |page=[https://archive.org/details/myreturn00abbo/page/186 186] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/myreturn00abbo/page/186 }} In 1956, after completing the Lycurgus in Sparta, Fairbanks and his wife adopted two young Greek sisters.

Fairbanks was a member of many organizations and societies, including National Sculpture Society, the Architectural League of New York, the International Institute of Arts and Letters, the Protetore Della Contrada Della Torre da Siena, Italy, and the Circolo Delgi Artisti di Firenzi. He was also an honorary member of the Society of Oregon Artists.{{rp|7}} Fairbanks was awarded Herbert Adams Memorial Medal by the National Sculpture Society for his contributions to American sculpture.{{rp|7}} Additionally, Paul of Greece awarded Fairbanks a medal of the Knights of Thermopylae. Fairbanks received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Lincoln College and the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University.{{rp|7}} Moreover, he received the Sesquicentennial Commission of the Congress of the United States.{{rp|7}}

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• [http://www.fairbanksartbooks.com/index.html Avard Fairbanks official website]

:Avard Fairbanks official website created by Eugene Fairbanks which includes lists of major works and locations, a sculpture sales gallery, and a list of books about Fairbanks

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509125255/http://www.avardfairbanks.com/index.html A tribute website to Fairbanks]

:An archived tribute website to Fairbanks created by Jefferson Fairbanks which includes descriptions and histories of Fairbanks's major works

• [http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/93 Avard T. Fairbanks papers, MSS 5866] at [https://sites.lib.byu.edu/sc/ L. Tom Perry Special Collections], Brigham Young University

:Avard Fairbanks's personal papers collection which includes correspondence, lecture notes, addresses, sketches, and drawings

• Fairbanks, Avard, [http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/416 Life of Avard T. Fairbanks, Sculptor],(MSS 7396), L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

:Original manuscript of a Fairbanks unpublished biography by Eugene Fairbanks

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