Large Arch plaza is designed for use by the public. In 2013-14, the plaza underwent repairs but "Large Arch" is still on view. Similar bronze arches by Henry Moore are on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. A similar arch by Moore made from travertine is also on display in Kensington Gardens in London, England. "Large Arch" was approved by the Bartholomew County Library board and paid for by Xenia and J. Irwin Miller at the suggestion of I.M.
Mother and Child (Gordine) Mother and Child (Gordine) Mother and Child is a public artwork by the Russian-British artist Dora Gordine, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The cast bronze artwork was created in 1964 and portrays a woman kneeling beside a small child, both figures displaying joyful poses and expressions. This cast bronze sculptural group shows two human figures linked by their hands. The dominant figure, much larger and central to the artwork, is a woman (the mother) who kneels so that her lower body is angled toward the proper right of the artwork. She