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Show Zion s Boy Artist w ms Ml ore Honors i Avard Fairbanks, Utah's Youthful Sculptor. if Awarded Two Scholarships by the Art Students , League of New York Special to The Trlhune. NEW YORK, July o. For his statuette stat-uette in clay of J van, tho bit; brown bear in the. ' Bronx-Zoological Bronx-Zoological gardens. Avard Fairbanks Fair-banks of Salt Lake, M years of age, has been awarded a year's scholarship in the Art Students' League in West Fifty-seventh street. His statuette. "The Fighting Pumas," also made from subjects he found in the lion house, has won him another scholarship of one year. Master Fairbanks has been a familiar famil-iar figure at the various cages and an imal houses in Bronx park since ho came to New York from Utah a year ago. The superintendent, Dr. Horna-day, Horna-day, has shown a great kindness toward to-ward the boy and appreciation of tho bo3-'s work and promised that the next house he builds shall be for tho Fairbanks Fair-banks animals. Mr. Homaday will ha'vp to build quickly if he wants to got the collection, for a Fifth avenue art dealer has made overtures to the youthful artist for the privilege of having his animals in bronze. It is said Master Fairbanks is the youngest modeler of animals in the country to attract, attention to his work. His father and his brother aro artists. Ho now purposes to make a model of the polar bear, "Silver King. ' ' |