Designed by Albin Polasek, former head of the Art Institute of Chicago’s sculpture department, “Mother” depicts a woman sheltering two children, while her young boy holds an upright torch. It stands outside a Renaissance Revival-style crematorium and columbarium in Bohemian National Cemetery, at 5255 N. Pulaski Road in Chicago, Illinois, and was erected in 1927. Polasek also designed another bronze sculpture in this cemetery called “The Pilgrim.”
