Maurice E. Brooks

Brooks was born in 1908 in Edgewood, Nevada.^[1] He graduated from the University of Utah.^[1]

Brooks was articled to sculptor Millard F. Malin, whom he assisted in designing the Mormon Battalion on the Utah State Capitol and the Sugar House Monument in Salt Lake City.^[1] Brooks designed busts as well as baptismal fonts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bern, London, and New Zealand.^[2] He was also a painter, and like many artists he painted scenes in Dixie, southwestern Utah.^[3] One of his paintings depicting Native Americans dancing was acquired by the Springville Museum of Art.^[3]

Brooks died on December 1, 1970, in Salt Lake City, and his funeral was held at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.^[4]