Ortho R. Fairbanks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1925
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date of Death: 02-Jun-2015
Profession: sculptor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Ortho R. Fairbanks
- Ortho R.
- Fairbanks (April 25, 1925 – June 2, 2015) was one of the many members of the Fairbanks family who have been prominent artists. Fairbanks was the grandson of painter John B.
- Fairbanks and the grand-nephew of Avard Fairbanks.
- He was born in Salt Lake City and received a BFA from the University of Utah in 1952 taking classes from his Uncle Avard.
- He received his MFA in 1953 also from the University of Utah.
- He married Myrna on February 18, 1949, right before he left on an LDS church mission to New Zealand.
- From 1960 to 1968 Fairbanks was a professor at the Church College of Hawaii.
- He contributed carvings to some of Avard Fairbanks's works.
- He also taught at the Northland Pioneer College.In 1965, Fairbanks was in Italy doing a study of sculpture in Italy and was able to obtain a copy of Vincenzo Di Francesca's unique conversion story to the LDS Church, which he then gave to the Improvement Era, which was the first to print it.
- It was later adapted into the film How Rare a Possession by the LDS Church.Fairbanks sculpted a monument to John Morgan and his commercial college, one of the first business schools in Utah.
- He has also made a sculpture to remember young children who die.The statue of Karl G.
- Maeser on Brigham Young University campus is by Fairbanks.
- Fairbanks's busts of Brigham Young, David O.
- McKay and Ezra Taft Benson are on display at the LDS Conference Center.
- He has also made sculptures of Hyrum Smith, Orson Pratt, and Philo T.
- Farnsworth.Ortho Fairbanks sculpted a bust of the prophet Joseph Smith when he was studying in Italy.
- He had access to the death mask of Joseph for facial details.
- A copy is owned by the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- A copy is also on display in the Harold B.
- Lee Library.
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