Burt Barker donated the six-foot-tall bronze sculpture, created by artist Alexander Phimister Proctor, to the university.

"[3] 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.

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.

"[1] 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.