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Kathryn Field is the roster's best-documented hand because her Mishawaka work stands in the Smithsonian's record whole. The Immigrants, her painted-steel group at Gateway Park on Main Street, is entered in the American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog (IAS IN000913): two parts — an immigrant family group some twenty-five feet high, and a woman and girl at fifteen — signed "K Field 93" on the proper right of the middle male figure, fabricated by the Mishawaka Steel Fabricating Company, dedicated 12 September 1993, the donors' names on a bronze plaque in the base, administered by the City's Parks and Recreation Department, and noticed in the South Bend Tribune of 1 September 1993. A sculptor whose monumental work was fabricated in the city it commemorates: the biography the record gives is the work, whole — her life's dates and training do not reach the open record, and the entry prints the work as the life at record size rather than borrowing a biography from elsewhere. Robert Kuntz Jr., the roster's riverfront sculptor, is documented by his own plaque: Circle of Life (2013), a South Bend artist's flock of stylized sandhill cranes and great blue herons — the birds of this river — in stainless steel over a Cor-Ten base, 4,500 pounds and nineteen feet, the largest bird twelve feet, fabricated by Rick Dombrowski of Deluxe Sheet Metal. The rest of the roster — Sufi Ahmad, David M. Layman, Jan R. Martin, James Brenner, F. Myers, Lyman Unruh, Judith Goodrick Heying — stand in the arts fragment at the sizes their individual records give there, which for most is the work-list and the exhibition line, not a life. The series' remainder is therefore named honestly: full biographies of the roster's quieter hands stand in the records that would settle them — the South Bend Museum of Art's exhibition archives, the Smithsonian inventories' full county sweep, and the Tribune's obituary record — and until those are read artist by artist, the biographies print as they stand here: two completed, the rest at fragment size.