Avard T. Fairbanks, BFA, MFA, MA, PhD, DFA (Honorary) Posthumous author. Taught at five different universities and created more than 100 public monuments. His professional career spanned 1911 to 1987. and Eugene F. Fairbanks, BA, MD. The son of Avard T. Fairbanks utilized his studies of human proportions for a doctoral thesis and expanded on them for practical guide for figurative artists. He has recently published "Children's Proportions for Artists," a companion piece to this book. He also created a heroic monument on Bellingham Bay honoring fishermen who were lost in pursuit of their profession.