11. Mother and Child by Michael Croydon was completed in 1999 and dedicated to Louise Smith Bross, a former art history professor at Lake Forest College whose family were great friends and supporters of the school. The sculpture was commissioned to honor her by her family, friends, colleagues, and students. Michael Croydon was born near London and educated at Goldsmiths College of Art, the Ealing School of Art, and the Royal College of Art. His work in architectural sculpture began in the early 1960s when he was teaching in Kenya at the University of East Africa. In 1968, Croydon was appointed a professor of art at Lake Forest College where he taught painting, photography, drawing, art history, and sculpture. He retired in 1995. His work is internationally recognized and represented in public and private collections throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Africa, and Japan.