DOI issue:
No. 188 (October, 1912)
DOI article:The little theatre
DOI article:A boy sculptor
DOI article:Raphael Limauro, pastelist
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43450#0419
A Boy Sculptor
A BUFFALO
BY AVARD FAIRBANKS
EXHIBITED AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY WINTER EXHIBITION, IQII-I2
man of extraordinary versatility and of an origi-
nality which borders on the bizarre. This will be
the first exhibition of his work in America.
A BOY SCULPTOR
Remarkably promising work in sculp-
ture is being done by Avard Tennyson Fairbanks,
a fourteen-year-old school boy. His ability was
first discovered through a clay model of a rabbit
which he made from one of his own pets, in his
father’s studio.
Later, while copying Barey’s Lion and Snake, in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his work at-
tracted the attention of Mrs. Hoard and Mr.
Frazen, of the Art Students’ League, who were
instrumental in securing for him a scholarship in
that institution. He displayed such ability, par-
ticularly in his modeling of a bear and a tiger, a
second scholarship to the League was tendered
him. His recent productions are a lion and a
buffalo—the latter he expects to dedicate to the
Schools of America, as the buffalo is exclusively an
American animal, and as the work is that of an
American school boy.
Young Fairbanks is so enamored of his work
that he seems to require little other recreation.
He is truly American, his ancestors having come
to this country in 1633. They settled in Dedham,
Mass., where their old house still stands.
T-J APHAEL LIMAURO, PASTELIST
The two pastels reproduced on the follow-
ing page were exhibited at the Twenty-second
Annual Exhibition of the New York Water-Color
Club, and are the work of Raphael Limauro, who
lately returned from Italy. This artist prefers to
work in pastels rather than oils, because he feels
that by using his chosen method of expression he
can translate the enhancing beauty of nature in a
more rapid and beautiful way. It seems to him
that in the dashing fusion of a thousand colors
which is afforded only by pastel he can reproduce
on a cold piece of cardboard all the radiant joy of
a sunny day, all the melancholy of a cloudy, rainy
sky, all the sleepy quiet of a woodland, or the tur-
moil of the busy street. It is Mr. Limauro’s aim
to study nature with the utmost sincerity and to
take every precaution to get a sound sense of
drawing and a genuine feeling of color.
Messrs. Moulton & Ricketts have purchased
the American business of the well-known firm of
Messrs. Arthur Tooth & Sons, of London and
Paris, and have removed their New York galleries
to the premises previously occupied by that firm
at No. 537 Fifth Avenue. Early English masters,
choice examples of the Dutch, Barbizon and Amer-
ican schools, and etchings and engravings by mod-
ern masters, are always on view in these galleries.
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A BUFFALO
BY AVARD FAIRBANKS
EXHIBITED AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY WINTER EXHIBITION, IQII-I2
man of extraordinary versatility and of an origi-
nality which borders on the bizarre. This will be
the first exhibition of his work in America.
A BOY SCULPTOR
Remarkably promising work in sculp-
ture is being done by Avard Tennyson Fairbanks,
a fourteen-year-old school boy. His ability was
first discovered through a clay model of a rabbit
which he made from one of his own pets, in his
father’s studio.
Later, while copying Barey’s Lion and Snake, in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his work at-
tracted the attention of Mrs. Hoard and Mr.
Frazen, of the Art Students’ League, who were
instrumental in securing for him a scholarship in
that institution. He displayed such ability, par-
ticularly in his modeling of a bear and a tiger, a
second scholarship to the League was tendered
him. His recent productions are a lion and a
buffalo—the latter he expects to dedicate to the
Schools of America, as the buffalo is exclusively an
American animal, and as the work is that of an
American school boy.
Young Fairbanks is so enamored of his work
that he seems to require little other recreation.
He is truly American, his ancestors having come
to this country in 1633. They settled in Dedham,
Mass., where their old house still stands.
T-J APHAEL LIMAURO, PASTELIST
The two pastels reproduced on the follow-
ing page were exhibited at the Twenty-second
Annual Exhibition of the New York Water-Color
Club, and are the work of Raphael Limauro, who
lately returned from Italy. This artist prefers to
work in pastels rather than oils, because he feels
that by using his chosen method of expression he
can translate the enhancing beauty of nature in a
more rapid and beautiful way. It seems to him
that in the dashing fusion of a thousand colors
which is afforded only by pastel he can reproduce
on a cold piece of cardboard all the radiant joy of
a sunny day, all the melancholy of a cloudy, rainy
sky, all the sleepy quiet of a woodland, or the tur-
moil of the busy street. It is Mr. Limauro’s aim
to study nature with the utmost sincerity and to
take every precaution to get a sound sense of
drawing and a genuine feeling of color.
Messrs. Moulton & Ricketts have purchased
the American business of the well-known firm of
Messrs. Arthur Tooth & Sons, of London and
Paris, and have removed their New York galleries
to the premises previously occupied by that firm
at No. 537 Fifth Avenue. Early English masters,
choice examples of the Dutch, Barbizon and Amer-
ican schools, and etchings and engravings by mod-
ern masters, are always on view in these galleries.
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