Three Way Piece No. 2: The Archer, Bronze sculpture in Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Canada

Three Way Piece No. 2: The Archer is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, 340 cm long and 325 cm high, standing on Nathan Phillips Square in front of Toronto City Hall. Its three interconnected limbs rise into a pointed, archer-like form with open hollows between them, so the outline changes as you walk around it.

Finnish architect Viljo Revell asked Henry Moore to make a sculpture for his new Toronto City Hall. The bronze was first shown in Arnhem in 1966 and unveiled in Toronto on 26 October that year. Moore cut the price from $120,000 to $100,000 on condition he could cast a second version, now in Berlin's National Gallery.

The Archer began in 1964 as a plaster maquette, probably based on a stone Moore had collected; unlike many of his maquettes, this one was never cast in bronze. A plaster cast was shown in June 1965 at the Queen's Theatre in London during a memorial service to T.S. Eliot. A marble version, about 78 by 75 cm, was carved by Moore in 1965 and acquired in 1967 by the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki.

The sculpture is accessible at any time in Nathan Phillips Square, directly in front of Toronto City Hall at 100 Queen Street West. The square is well served by public transit and provides free access to the outdoor artwork throughout the day and evening.

Toronto holds one of the world's largest collections of Henry Moore's works, with over 100 bronze pieces in the Art Gallery of Ontario. This makes the city an exceptional place to experience the full range and development of Moore's artistic approach.