Show THIS famed of Utah is being honored this week by the Union Here he is shown doing- a bust Honors To Avard Fairbanks By Arita Redd This week the Union Board has chosen honor one of ithe University's most remarkable Avard T. who as now Consultant in Fine Arts and Resident Sculptor at the University of Professor Fairbanks became interested in sculpture at the age of Because he showed such outstanding he was awarded scholarships to study at the Art Students League in New York in 1910 and At the age of his work was shown in the National of In 1913 he went to Paris to study while exhibited at the 7 Grand His works were also shown in the Fire Arts Palace at the Exposition in San Francisco in Fairbank's career as a teacher of sculpture was begun in 1920 at the University of He remained there until he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in This fellowship enabled him to go to Italy to do creative In 1929 he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as Associate Professor of and in 1947 organized the College of Fine Arts at the University of He has also taught at the University of Professor Fairbanks holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Two honorary degrees have also been conferred upon They are the Lincoln Diploma of Honor from the Lincoln Memorial and the Doctor of Fine Arts from the Lincoln In addition to the above Professor Fairbanks has received international recognition as a Fellow of the International In of Arts and whose headquarters is near Among his great works is the heroic size the great lawgiver and founder of constitutional erected in For this statue he was awarded the Medal of the Knights of which was conferred by His Majesty Paul of and the Medal of conferred by the Honorable Mayor of Other important include Marcus Whitman of Albert the Last Survivor of the Grand Army of the erected in the Gettysburg National Military Lincoln at New the Chicago a bust of Canada's Prime Minister Mac-Kenzie Most recently he has finished the Ute Brave for the new Union and a monument titled the of the for the He has several monuments in progress at the present including a statue of General George A. Fairbanks has been called the Lincoln because of his numerous statutes of that great He has studied Lincoln's life He was married to Beatrice Maude in Honolulu in and is the father of eight At his youngest son is a sophomore at the U. of U. The University of as well as all of is proud to salute Avard |