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 The Pioneer Mother - Eugene, Oregon Posted by:  DougK
N 44° 02.650 W 123° 04.546
10T E 493929 N 4876781
The Pioneer Mother is a sculpture located on the University of Oregon campus. She faces north, toward The Pioneer, a sculpture of a male pioneer, with Johnson Hall.
Waymark Code: WMT6TG
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 10/05/2016
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Wikipedia tells us:
Pioneer Mother began with Burt Barker, then a vice-president of the University of Oregon, who had the initial idea to represent the pioneer mothers on campus and financial resources to present this work as a gift to the state board of education. He commissioned Alexander Phimister Proctor to do the work in 1927, since Proctor had already created The Pioneer. For this sculpture, the model was Barker's own mother, Elvira Brown Barker, who migrated to Oregon across the Great Plains in 1847.
In design, The Pioneer Mother conveys the subject in later life, after the trials of the journey westward had long been completed. When Barker made the news of his gift public, he described what set this sculpture apart: "[o]thers have perpetuated the struggles of the pioneer mother; I want to perpetuate the peace which followed her struggles." The sculpture, placed atop a six-foot-tall base of pink granite, portrays a woman sitting at rest on a straight-backed chair, with a Bible upon her lap. The clear lines and massing of the base further enhance the suggestion of repose. Her journey, as represented in the bronze bas-relief panels on the west and east sides of the base, is over, and she is firmly rooted in her new home. Her style, as seen in her hair arrangement and cut of her dress, is simple, she is a depiction of all pioneer mothers in the twilight of their years.
Burt Barker donated the six-foot-tall bronze sculpture to the university. Barker's daughter, Barbara Barker, introduced the sculpture on May 7, 1932.
She faces north, toward The Pioneer, a sculpture of a male pioneer, with Johnson Hall, the university's main administration building, between them. The sculptures are about one hundred yards apart.
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