Children's Proportions for Artists
Eugene Fox Fairbanks, born March 20, 1921, in Eugene, Oregon. He is the second son of Avard T. Fairbanks, an internationally famous sculptor and educator. Eugene's early education was in Ann Arbor Michigan. He earned a BA degree and then studied medicine and received an MD degree at the University of Michigan in 1945. Eugene F. and Florence Sundwall were married in 1944. Internship was served at the Wayne County Hospital at Eloise, MI near Detroit, MI. He served in the Army medical Corp 1946-48. Anesthesia residencies were in the University of Utah and at the Mason Hospital in Seattle, WA. He practiced Family Medicine and Anesthesiology in Kennewick and later in Bellingham, WA. He retired in 1990. He co-authored an intertidal invertebreate zoology identification text wikth Dr. Charles J. Flora in 1966, titled, "The Sound and the Sea" He has authored art books about Avard T. Fairbanks sculpture: A Sculptor's Testimony in Bronze and Stone;" A Sculpture Garden of Fantasy;" Abraham Lincoln Sculpture Created by A.T. Fairbanks;" and co-autjored with his father(poshumously) Human Proportions for Artists." Utilizing experience assisting his father, Eugene Fairbanks has created and a heroic monument in bronze, honoring the community's Fishermen lost at sea, It was erected 1995 at Zuanich Park in Bellingham, WA. Eugene and Florence are the proud parents of five sons and five daughters, forty two grandchildren, and over forty greatgrandchildren.