Explore the Location of this artwork, The Pioneer Mother (Eugene, Oregon).
The sculpture was intentionally placed in a busy location on the University of Oregon campus. Barker stated in his address at her unveiling that "[i]t has been placed on the campus of the University of Oregon ... with the hope that so placed in the midst of the students and their activities, it may tell its story as a work of art and become a strong factor in implanting the love of the beautiful in the lives of the students as they go in and out before it."As to her exact location, an Old Oregon article describes her placement thus: "[h]er site was not chosen until a cardboard facsimile of the statue was placed at various positions on the campus. After the entire women's quadrangle was changed, the Mother was placed in the center, close enough to several paths so she can catch bits of University chatter."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.  The primary sources consulted, however, give no indication that this was done with the intention they face each other as the popular notion today insists.
The Pioneer University of Oregon Johnson Hall