Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (March 2, 1897 – January 1, 1987) was a 20th-century American sculptor. Over his eighty-year career, he sculpted over 100 public monuments and hundreds of artworks.[1] Fairbanks is known for his religious-themed commissions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) including the Three Witnesses, Tragedy of Winter Quarters, and several Angel Moroni sculptures on spires of the church's temples.[2] Additionally, Fairbanks sculpted over a dozen Abraham Lincoln-themed sculptures and busts among which the most well-known reside in the U.S. Supreme Court Building and Ford's Theatre Museum.[3]
From a young age, Fairbanks was a talented artist. At 13 years old, he attended the Art Students League of New York on scholarship and his work was displayed at the National Academy of Design a year later. In 1913, he studied abroad in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts where he was the youngest student admitted to the French salons. He taught sculpture at several universities and attended medical school at the University of Michigan where he earned a doctorate in anatomical studies in order to better represent the human body in his art.
^"Avard Fairbanks' works exhibited in visitors center". Church News. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. June 24, 1995. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
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^Fairbanks, Eugene (Summer 2005). "Sculptural Commemorations of Abraham Lincoln by Avard T. Fairbanks". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 26 (2). Retrieved June 6, 2019.
Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (March 2, 1897 – January 1, 1987) was a 20th-century American sculptor. Over his eighty-year career, he sculpted over 100 public...
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ISBN 1-56647-211-3. Fairbanks, Eugene F.; Fairbanks, Avard Tennyson (1998). A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone: The Sacred Sculpture of Avard T. Fairbanks. Salt...
bronze sculpture depicting the American politician of the same name by AvardFairbanks, installed at the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in...
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panels were cast in 1931, replacing the 1917 door panels. Designed by AvardFairbanks, they "depict noble concepts of American life, such as 'Knowledge and...
and Woman Dancing. General George Washington, a colossal portrait by AvardFairbanks, is placed in the reception room (another is installed at Washington...
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1916 National Statuary Hall North Dakota Statue of John Burke Bronze AvardFairbanks 1963 National Statuary Hall Statue of Sakakawea Bronze Arizona Bronze...
depicting the first woman justice of the peace in the United States by AvardFairbanks. One copy is installed outside the Wyoming State Capitol, in Cheyenne...
Romanelli Edward Wagner Visiting sculptors Herbert Adams Donald De Lue AvardFairbanks Daniel Chester French Robert Graham Lee Lawrie Giacomo Manzù J. Massey...
University of Utah. This was partly due to having become friends with AvardFairbanks on a previous visit to Salt Lake City and also a result of doctors...
Cheyenne on April 2, 1902. Since 1960, a statue of her sculpted by AvardFairbanks has been one of Wyoming's two statues in the National Statuary Hall...
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