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2. Einar Jónsson
(Iceland, 1874-
1954)
Light and shade
Einar Jónsson
Museum garden
in Reykyavik

3. Einar Jónsson
(Iceland, 1874-
1954)
Light and shade
detail

4. Einar
Jónsson
(Iceland,
1874-1954)
Prayer

5. Einar Jónsson
(Iceland, 1874-
1954)
Prayer

6. Einar Jónsson
(Iceland, 1874-1954)
Protection

7. Einar Jónsson
(Iceland, 1874-
1954)
Protection
(fragment)

8. Nina
Sæmundsson
(Iceland,
1892-1965)
Motherly Love
(1928)
Reykjavik Art
Museum
'Mothers'
Garden'
in
Reykjavik

9. Motherly Love
(1928)
by Nina
Sæmundsson
(Icelandic,1892-
1965)
'Mothers' Garden'
in Reykjavik

10. Asmundur Sveinsson
(Iceland, 1893-1982)
Moorland flight
in the Asmundur Sveinsson
Sculpture Garden,
Reykjavik, Iceland

11. Asmundur
Sveinsson
(Iceland,
1893-1982)
Moorland
flight

12. Asmundur Sveinsson
(Iceland, 1893-1982)
Moorland flight
1933

13. Asmundur
Sveinsson
(Iceland, 1893-
1982)
Worship 1958
Asmundur
Sveinsson
-
Adoration

14. According to the Icelandic Sagas,
around 1002 CE, an Icelandic immigrant,
Gudrid “the Far Traveler” settled in Eastern
Canada, where she gave birth to a son,
Snorri, the first recorded birth to a
European traveler in the Americas. Gudrid
had traveled 3,000 miles in small viking
sailing and rowing vessels across the stormy
north Atlantic to reach her new home…

15. Asmundur
Sveinsson
(Iceland,
1893-1982)
Gudrid
Thorbjarnardóttir,
AKA
Gudrid
the
Far-Travelled

16. There is a statue created by the sculptor Asmundur Sveinsson
in 1938 for the 1939 New York World's Fair of Gudrid on
display at Glaumbær, in Iceland. Other copies of this statue are
on display in Laugarbrekka in the Snæfellsnes peninsula on
Iceland and in Ottawa, Canada

17. Gudrid appears in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the
Greenlanders, known collectively as the Vinland sagas
Gudrid and her son
In Laugarbrekka, on the south side of
the Snæfellsnes peninsula in West-Iceland

18. Gustav
Vigeland
(Norwegian,
1869-1943)
Mother
and
child,
1909

19. Gustav
Vigeland
(Norwegian,
1869-
1943)
Mother and
child,
1909

20. Gustav Vigeland (Norwegian, 1869-1943) Mother and children
Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway

21. Gustav
Vigeland
(Norwegian,
1869-
1943)
Mother and
child
Frogner
Park in Oslo,
Norway

22. Gustav Vigeland
(Norwegian, 1869-
1943)
Mother and children
Frogner Park in
Oslo, Norway

23. Per Ung
(Norwegian, 1933-
2013)
The wartime mother
bronze sculpture on
Nordnes in Bergen

24. Per
Ung
(Norwegian,
1933-2013)
Mother
and
child
-
Ekebergparken,
Oslo,
Norway

25. Per Ung
(Norwegian, 1933-2013)
Young mother

26. Per
Ung
(Norwegian,
1933-2013)
The
monument
to
the
mothers
of
Kirkenes

27. David Wretling
(Sweden,
1901-1986)
Mother and
child,
1958
Umedalen
Sculpture park

28. David Wretling (Sweden, 1901-1986)
Mother and child

29. John Cassidy
(Ireland,1860-1939)
sculpture 'Adrift' in
Manchester

30. John Cassidy (Ireland,1860-1939) sculpture 'Adrift' in Manchester

31. John Cassidy (Ireland,1860-1939)
'Adrift’
Bronze sculpture of a family clinging to
a raft in a stormy sea

32. John Cassidy
(Ireland,1860-1939)
'Adrift’
Bronze sculpture of a
family clinging to a raft
in a stormy sea

33. Michael Snowden (Scottish, 1930)
Central Way Car Park, Cumbernauld, Glasgow

34. Patricia Finch
(1921–2001)
Mother and child
Queen Square
Gardens,
Bloomsbury,
Camden
London

35. Patricia Finch
(1921–2001)
Memorial for Andrew
Meller in Queen
Square, London

36. Patricia Finch
(1921–2001)
Memorial for
Andrew Meller in
Queen Square,
London

37. Aleix Barbat and Ian Homer
Walters (1930–2006)
Bronze woman
in honour of black women
in Britain, Stockwell
Memorial Garden, London

38. Aleix Barbat and Ian
Homer Walters
(1930–2006)
Bronze woman
Stockwell Memorial
Garden, London

39. Konstantin Zinich
(Russian)
Mother and child
at Kemerovo

40. Konstantin Zinich (Russian)
Mother and child at Kemerovo

41. Konstantin Zinich (Russian)
Mother and child at
Kemerovo

42. Oleksandr
Tokarev
Odessa
Sailor's Wife
Monument
2002

44. Karin Jonzen
(1914-1998)
Mother and child
Installed on the
London County
Council’s Sydenham
Hill estate in 1960
Karin
Jonzen
FRBS
(1914-1998)

45. Mahesh Anjarlekar
(India)
Mother and child

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