Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 13, 1940
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The thawing weather in the last two days prompted numerous youngsters - and oldsters, too - to build snowmen in Ann Arbor. Above is shown a "wolf at the door" of the home of Prof. Avard Fairbanks, sculptor, which he made to entertain his children. Standing beside the snow wolf are two of the children of Prof. and Mrs. Fairbanks, Grant (left), who is two years old, and David (right), who is three. Prof. Fairbanks received some help in making the wolf from his children.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 18, 1939
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MODELING CHAMPION STALLION: Avard T. Fairbanks, Ann Arbor sculptor, is shown with his nearly completed clay model of Obusier, 189153, rated the best imported stallion at the International Livestock show in Chicago last fall and owned by E. A. Hunter of Ann Arbor. The horse was added to the Dhu Varren Farms herd of outstanding Percherons last month. The clay model is to be cast in bronze and one model will be sent to Michigan State College for exhibition purposes.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 28, 1938
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PREPARING FOR SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OPENING MONDAY: The annual exhibition of work of students in sculpturing in the University Institute of fine arts will open Monday night and will be held in the concourse of the Michigan League through commencement week. Students and faculty of the department are busy modeling and casting their pieces. In the upper picture, Miss Rosemary Mowery (left) of 718 Monroe St. is putting finishing touches to her model, "The Acrobat," and Miss Alice Frayer of Cranbook is shown at the right with her figure of "Parzifal." In the lower picture Prof. Avard Fairbanks, associate professor of sculpture in the institute, is critically touching up his figure of "Snowboy," for which his son, David, was the model last winter.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 28, 1938
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PREPARING FOR SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OPENING MONDAY: The annual exhibition of work of students in sculpturing in the University Institute of fine arts will open Monday night and will be held in the concourse of the Michigan League through commencement week. Students and faculty of the department are busy modeling and casting their pieces. In the upper picture, Miss Rosemary Mowery (left) of 718 Monroe St. is putting finishing touches to her model, "The Acrobat," and Miss Alice Frayer of Cranbook is shown at the right with her figure of "Parzifal." In the lower picture Prof. Avard Fairbanks, associate professor of sculpture in the institute, is critically touching up his figure of "Snowboy," for which his son, David, was the model last winter.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 15, 1946
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'PEACE ON EARTH' IN SNOW: Prof. Avard Fairbanks, University sculpture instructor, has modeled the dove of peace perched on the globe, symbol of the hopes of all mankind. Prof. Fairbanks annually sculptures a timely work on snow in the yard of his home at 1051 Lincoln Ave.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 18, 1942
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SNOW DRAGON SNAGS A JAP: Sculptor Avard Fairbanks has as the theme of his annual snow figure in the yard of his home on Lincoln Ave., a long-tailed dragon with the torn clothing of a Jap hanging from his mouth. Two of Fairbanks' sons are seen fearlessly playing around the dragon, apparently unafraid.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 18, 1947
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LAST WORK HERE: Prof. Avard Fairbanks, who is leaving the University to become dean of the newly created School of Fine Arts at the University of Utah, surveys the last major sculpture study in which he will engage while here. The recently completed work, "Colt Pegasus," was created for the gardens of the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson in Rochester and will be on view to the public at an open house to be held in Prof. Fairbanks' studio, second floor of University hall, from 1 to 5 o'clock tomorrow. The sculpture is now in clay form and will later be cast in bronze and placed on a base of rainbow granite carved in the form of billowing clouds. The elusive steed of the Muses, under Prof. Fairbanks hands, wears a "catch-me-if-you-can-look" and is portrayed taking off into the sky on a flight of fancy. Prof. Fairbanks has been associate professor at the University's Institute of Fine Arts for the past 17 years.