Avard Fairbanks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Avard Fairbanks

American artist

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1897

Place of Birth: Provo, Utah, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1987

Profession: artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.
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 LDS temple spires.
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.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.