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Website
Owner:
Jefferson Fairbanks, PhD,
grandson of the sculptor
Comments
are welcome
Related
Links:
Books
on the Sculptor Avard Fairbanks by Eugene F. Fairbanks:
"A
Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone"
"A
Sculpture Garden of Fantasy"
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purposes of selling art. Viewers interested in purchasing art may
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Pony Express Float
Pioneer Day Parade, 1947
In 1947, to comemmorate the centennial of the arrival of the Mormon
Pioneers in Utah, Avard Fairbanks created a life-sized monument
to the Pony Express as a Pioneer Day Parade float. Fabricated in
white plaster over a wood and wire framework, it exhibited Fairbanks'
mastery of anatomy, action, balance and rhythm. It contrasted the
vigor of the fresh horse to the fatigue of the spent horse. And
it contrasted youth to age, symbolic of how each older generation
must bid Godspeed to a younger generation. It honored the courage
not only of the young Express riders, but also of the unsung heroes
- the station keepers, many of whom lost their lives in this daring
American enterprise.
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