1915

Medal of Greek goddess Athena holding branch, with an owl on a stack of books and a lamp on a pedestal. Made for Chas. Robbins Co., Attleboro, MA.

Sculpture is a hulking monster of war having beaten down a peasant. War has sized the peasant’s wife by the throat. She peasant pleads for mercy on her knees back arched in suffering.

One of Petersen’s plaster sculptures, "The Mother: A Wartime Conception", was featured on the June 5, 1915 cover of "The Survey" an American magazine on social and political issues published in New York in the early and mid 20th century.