1911-04-Improvement Era-Avard Fairbanks
From New York City LDS History
- Improvement Era, v14 n6, April 1911, p. 563.
Avard Fairbanks
Avard Fairbanks, thirteen years of age, son of John Fairbanks, the artist, secured recognition on the 28th of February, at the hands of the National Academy of Design, in New York", by the acceptance and admission of his group, "Fighting Panthers," into that institution. The bright and talented young lad was born at Provo, though he has resided the greater part of his life in Salt Lake City, where his brother Leo is the director of drawing in the public schools. His father is a well-known landscape painter, now in New York, with his son Avard.