OREfairbanksa.xml Guide to the Avard T. Fairbanks Collection 1911-1981 Fairbanks (Avard T.) Collection Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Nielsen. Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center 2013
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Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Nielsen. YYYY Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center Special Collections & Archives Research Center
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MSS FairbanksA Fairbanks, Avard T. (Avard Tennyson), 1897-1987. Avard T. Fairbanks Collection 1911-1981 1942-1981 0.1 cubic foot, including 6 photographs 1 box The Avard T. Fairbanks Collection consists of a biography and bibliography of Fairbanks, assembled in 1981 by his son, Eugene Fairbanks. The collection includes brochures, clippings, and articles written by and about Avard Fairbanks. Avard Fairbanks sculpted the Service Memorial in the Oregon State University Memorial Union. Materials in English. Biographical Note:

Avard T. Fairbanks was a sculptor and faculty member at the University of Michigan and University of Utah. He sculpted the Service Memorial that honors World War I veterans in the Oregon State University Memorial Union. Avard's brother was J. Leo Fairbanks, Professor of Art and Architecture at Oregon State College from 1923 to 1946.

Avard Fairbanks was born in Provo, Utah, in 1897 and studied sculpture in New York and France before turning 17. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1925; he became a faculty member at the University of Michigan's Institute of Fine Arts in 1929 and completed his Master of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in Anatomy while at Michigan. Fairbanks was appointed Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah in 1947, a position he held until his retirement in 1955. In addition to small and large bronzes, marble carvings, medals, and relief panels, Fairbanks designed hood ornaments for Plymouth and Chrysler, including the Dodge ram.

The Avard T. Fairbanks Collection consists of a biography, bibliography, and related materials written and assembled by Avard's son, Eugene Fairbanks. The collection includes brochures, clippings, articles written by and about Avard Fairbanks, and several photographs. The materials document Avard Fairbanks' life and work as a sculptor and provide detailed information about his sculptures. The photographs depict several of his works, including an Oregon Centennial relief, Guidance of Youth in Bush Park (Salem, Oregon), a World War I memorial in Jefferson High School (Portland, Oregon), door panels at the U.S. National Bank building in Portland, and the Service Memorial in the Oregon State University Memorial Union. Many of the brochures include published photographs of Fairbanks' other sculptures.

Collection is open for research.

Avard T. Fairbanks Collection (MSS FairbanksA), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

The collection was donated by Eugene Fairbanks to the Kerr Library at Oregon State University in 1981; the Library subsequently transferred the material to the University Archives.

The collection was received by the University Archives in 1981.

The Special Collections & Archives Research Center holdings include the John Leo Fairbanks Collection as well as records of the Oregon State University Art Department in the College of Liberal Arts Records (RG 143). Additional information about the Memorial Union is available in the Memorial Union Records (RG 099) and Photographs (P 198). More information about sculptures on the Oregon State campus is available in the Memorabilia Collection.

Fairbanks, Eugene F. Oregon State University. Memorial Union. Sculpture, American--20th century. Photographic prints. Colleges and Universities Fine Arts Oregon Corvallis Portland Photographs