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Avard Tennyson Fairbanks 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
Fairbanks (c. 1914)
Older brother, John Leo Fairbanks, and younger brother, Avard Tennyson Fairbanks, 1912 in New York City, while Avard was studying art
Three Witnesses Monument, by Avard Fairbanks
Bust of Roscoe Pound created by Fairbanks in 1981 for the Nebraska Hall of Fame
Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood: John the Baptist is a 1957 bronze sculpture by Avard Fairbanks, installed in Salt Lake City’s Temple Square, in the U.S. state of Utah. The sculpture commemorate
Avard Fairbanks
…an encampment. Many of the sculptures on Temple Square in Salt Lake City are by Fairbanks, including the Three Witnesses Monument. In 1957, his work Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood was added to Temple Square; a relief version of this sculpture was added to the Priesthood Restoration Site in 1960. A companion piece, Restoration of…
Temple Square, 2025
Fairbanks' two Priesthood Restoration statues on Temple Square
Relief version, as seen at the Priesthood Restoration Site