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January 08, 2008
Avard T. Fairbanks, MA'33, PhD'36, and Eugene F. Fairbanks, '43, MD'45
Human Proportions for Artists, Fairbanks Arts and Books, 2005
The book: This book will be of interest to art students and serious amateurs. It discusses human proportions and includes profuse illustrations and tables of about 120 representative human measurements of both male and female figures in both inch and metric dimensions.
The author: Avard T. Fairbanks was a distinguished sculptor, anatomist and educator. During his career he created more than 100 public monuments to great characters and events in history (four are found in the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC). He studied in New York, Paris and Italy, and he attained his doctorate in Anatomy at U-M where he also was professor of Sculpture. He served on the faculties of five American universities, and he was the founding dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah.
Eugene, Avard's son, chose to study medicine at U-M, but he often helped his father at the University's studio and assisted with modeling and plaster casting. During his spare time from medicine and raising 10 children, Eugene also has done sculpture, composed poetry and has authored and published several other art books, including "A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone," "A Sculpture Garden of Fantasy," Abraham Lincoln Sculpture Created by Avard Fairbanks."
Posted by tobiaslw at January 8, 2008 10:03 AM