Avard Tennyson Fairbanks was a prolific 20th-century American sculptor.
Education
Fairbanks studied in at the Art Students League of New York beginning at age 13 and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Jean Antoine Injalbert beginning at age 17. Foreign three years Fairbanks studied on a Guggenheim Fellowship in Florence, Italy. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in anatomy from the University of Michigan.
Career
Possibly his most well-known artistic contribution was designing the ram symbol for Dodge. received his bachelor"s degree from Yale University and his master"s degree from the University of Washington. He was also a professor of sculpture at the University of Michigan. His father was John B., who was an artist and art professor
His mother, Lilly Annetta Huish, died about a year after he was born.
She was a cousin of Orson Pratt Huish. Avard"s brother J. Leo was also an artist, and helped start sculpting as a teenager.
Among " children is Jonathan Leo, who was curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the early 1990s. also briefly served as a foster parent to Jack Henry Abbott as detailed in Abbott"s second book, My Return. Many of the sculptures on Temple Square in Salt Lake City are by, including the Three Witnesses Monument. later became a professor at the University of Utah.
Although most of his later work was free-standing sculptures, did return to the frieze when he made some for the Harold B. made a statue of Lycurgus that led to his being knighted by King Paul of Greece.
Membership
Foreign a time in the 1920s Fairbanks was a member of the faculty of the University of Oregon.