Anonymous ID: 743f23 April 28, 2019, 8:55 p.m. No.6355070   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5097 >>5439

Ran into this and wanted to share.

 

Large Arch

>Large Arch is an outdoor sculpture by British sculptor Henry Moore. It was installed in 1971

>and is located in the outdoor plaza of the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library in Columbus, Indiana.

>Xenia and J. Irwin Miller commissioned the sculpture and gave it to the library. The sculpture is

>nearly 20 feet tall and is made of sandcast bronze that has been patinated.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Arch

located in Columbus, Indiana (Pence's home town)

Sculptor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Rogers_Memorial_Library

>The Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, also known as the Main Library, is the flagship library of the Bartholomew

>County Public Library system. It includes a branch in Hope, Indiana, and a bookmobile that serves the county.

>The building was designed by I. M. Pei & Partners and constructed by Dunlap & Company, completed in

>1969, and dedicated in 1971.

 

https://tboake.com/pei_library.html

>Front view of the library which faces First Christian Church by Eliel Saarinen. Henry Moore designed the

>sculpture in front "Large Arch", 1971.

 

Eliel Saarinen is the father of the man who designed the North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana - Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen is also the man who designed the St. Louis Arch, Dulles Airport, TWA Terminal at JFK Airport and a multitude of other noteworthy locations of the cabal (some covered above).

 

The architect of the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei, who among other things designed:

  • designed the new Mesa Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric Research outside Boulder, Colorado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei#NCAR_and_related_projects)

  • was awarded the commission to design the John F. Kennedy Library by Jacqueline Kennedy herself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei#Kennedy_Library)

 

Additional notes:

Xenia and J. Irwin Miller are key figures wrt the architecture in Columbus, Indiana. They used Eero Saarinen for many projects, including personal ones like their main home in Columbus and a vacation home in Canada.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Irwin_Miller

 

>In 1954, he established the Cummins Foundation and in 1957 made an offer to Columbus that the foundation

>would pay all the architects fees for new public buildings in Columbus.

 

In additional to leading Cummins Diesel, he:

>was a 1931 graduate of Yale University and made Phi Beta Kappa. From 1931 to 1933 he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Balliol

>College, Oxford, which made him an Honorary Fellow in 1974.

..and he

>helped to establish the National Council of Churches (NCC) and later served as its first lay president (1960–63). Miller chaired the NCC's Commission on

>Religion and Race, which coordinated organized religion’s support for strong civil rights legislation, and jointly sponsored the March on Washington. He led

>religious delegations that met with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to push for the legislation that became the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 

Also,

>Upon Miller's death in 2004, the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA instituted an annual J. Irwin Miller Award. The award is presented

>annually to "a lay person who has been a witness, through action in the world, to justice and other values affirmed by Christian faith, and who has

>demonstrated a commitment to church unity."

 

>He was active in politics, persuading New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to run for president in 1968 (and served as national campaign chairman)

>and in 1972 he supported New York City Mayor John Lindsay's presidential bid.

>Miller also served as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, the Ford Foundation, and was a member of the Yale Corporation, which governs the

>university. In 1986 he received the National Building Museum's first Honor Award.

 

Miller was a Disciple of Christ (North Christian Church) - same as Lyndon Johnson (and I suspect Pence, though it's damn near impossible to find out what kind of Christian he is).

 

https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-culture/circle-city/xenia-simons-miller-modern-woman

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_House_(Columbus,_Indiana)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/28742134020

https://www.hermanmiller.com/stories/why-magazine/hello-columbus/

 

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Anonymous ID: 743f23 April 28, 2019, 8:58 p.m. No.6355097   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6355070 (cont'd)

 

>A literally monumental choice was left to Xenia when the family’s foundation charged her with finding an artwork for the plaza in front of the Columbus

>library, a building designed by I.M. Pei. When prodded by the foundation’s president-director in 1968, Xenia wrote back: “Have you and Mr. Pei found an

>unknown Henry Moore or Picasso to recommend?” Well, they hadn’t. So Xenia went to Moore and commissioned a piece. She paid for it through the family

>foundation. Today, Moore’s Large Arch stands on the plaza—just one of so many pieces of remarkable art and architecture for which you can thank Xenia

>Simons Miller.

 

There is a biography in J. Irwin Miller called, "The Cathedral Builder" by Charles E. Mitchell Rentschler.

https://columbus.in.us/cathedral-builder/ (huffpo article in that page is not even archived at archive.org)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24217127-the-cathedral-builder

 

And this is interesting in the book's description:

 

>The author knew Miller personally because their wives were actively involved in running the Columbus branch of the Indianapolis Art Museum.

So I guess the following the wives might provide some more leads after all. The author has another book called "Fortitude The Story of My Ancestors".

https://www.overdrive.com/media/4127654/

 

Last thing, I want to mention is that the picture of their dining room table looks spoopy AF - (Gloria Vanderbilt style) and I am sure if we look hard enough we can find some interesting artifacts there.