Show MB AVARD FAIRBANKS is pictured here with his recently constructed statue of Esther which is being sent to the Statuary Hall in the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Noted Utah Sculptor Sends Statue To D.C. Avard recognized throughout the world as an outstanding has recently completed a statue in memory of Esther Morris as requested by the state of Fairbanks is the present consultant of fine resident and professor and head of the department of sculpture at the University of Utah Sculptor of West His work concerned with the pioneer West is particularly His statue of Esther Morris took three years to and is eight and one-half feet This statue is to be placed in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol Building in and is the second statue to be exhibited there which was produced on the University of Utah The first was a statue of Marcus also sculptured by Among his other world known statues Pioneer Lincoln the and a statue of the great law Fairbanks was born in He has lived in the western United States throughout but has studied extensively in France and Fairbanks received his at Yale University in his at the University of Washington in his M.A. and Ph.d. at the University of Michigan in and 1936 his Lincoln Diploma of Honor at the Lincoln Memorial Tennessee in and at Lincoln Illinois in A few of Fairbank's previous positions have assistant professor of University of associate professor of University of since college of fine and professor of sculpture and University of summer of Holds Many Awards Fairbanks is an active member of Architectural League of and American Institute of National Sculpture and International Institute of Arts and for distinguished service to American Among the medals he has received for his outstanding works of art The Herbert Adams Memorial National Sculpture The Knights of Thermopylae awarded by his King Paul of and the Lycurgus awarded by the Mayor of |