1934

Portrait bust. Adams was Petersen’s colleague on Public Works of Art Project at Iowa City.

Created on Public Works of Art Project in Iowa City, a preliminary model for a proposed bridgehead sculpture that was never commissioned. It depicts four buffalo running.

Final model for mural inside Dairy Industry Building. Two women in Grecian clothing and a boy with jugs. Bull in background. This also shows the brickwork and ledge which frame the final piece, which is one of a pair of murals inside the entrance to the Dairy Industry…

Cast, study for central fountain sculpture in Dairy Industry Building Courtyard. Three Jersey cows are bending their heads low to drink water while a bull stands and looks over their heads.

Seven panels depicting the history of dairying with fountain at center panel. Designed and modeled at the Iowa City studio of the Public Woks of Art Project, administered by Grant Wood. Terra cotta panels fired at the Department of Ceramic Engineering at Iowa State…

Portrait bust of Petersen’s friend, from the University of Iowa art department, Iowa City, Iowa, and one of the artists for the Iowa State College Library murals in 1934.

Portrait bust of Petersen’s Iowa City friend who worked on Grant Wood’s Public Works of Art murals for the Iowa State College Library. Painted green.

Portrait bust of Doris, daughter of Harlan Miller, a Des Moines Register and Tribune columnist.

Plaque designed honoring Johnson Brigham, long-time State Librarian. Cast is presented every one to three years by the Iowa Library Association, provided some Iowa author has produced work that is worthy of recognition during those three years.. Design features kneeling…

A sketch which may have been done for "Julegranen" magazine.

Possibly a study of Francis McCray.

Sketch of a three tiered fountain surrounded by three figures.

This portrait bust was a gift of Christian Petersen to the students of William McKinley School in Cedar Rapids. It was removed for an posthumous bronze casting that is located at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The original portrait bust was likely destroyed during the…