1939

Portrait bust of State Secretary of Agriculture and Gardner Cowles’ grandson. Modeled at the Iowa State Fair, 1939.

The subject is the adopted son of Florence Walls, Iowa State College faculty member.

She graduated from Iowa State in BS in Home Economics and Applied Arts (’56); Master’s (’57). She is the great granddaughter of Seaman Knapp, former president of Iowa State College.

Portrait bust of dean, Veterinary Medicine College, Iowa State College.

Whimsical study, based on Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

Son of Iowa State College music professor, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Schroeder. Plaster is of young boy holding a stuffed dog.

Bas relief portrait created for close friends of Petersens.

Petersen saw children on a mule after the 1938 flood in Kentucky. A bronze casting of this piece was created after Petersen’s death.

One sculpture depicts Mary Petersen, the artist’s daughter, holding her rag doll in dejection and the other depicts her playmate–a neighborhood boy–holding his new puppy after bragging about it and telling her, You can’t play with it. Five plaster castings were sold at…

Figures of mother and two small children, believed to be from Appalachia.

High relief of head of a Viking

Reclining female nude figure, also possibly known as Siesta.

Man outside a doorway, seated in a chair which he’s tilting back.

Sketch for "Charlotte and Mary" bas relief.

A twenty-page booklet with Motives by Mary, Words by Mommie, Drawings by Daddy. Includes fifteen illustrations of Mary at age three. Self-published in unknown quantity by the Petersen family for Christmas 1939.

The back of the artist’s wife seated with arm around their daughter who is turned playing with a cat. All are on a blanket.

Three studies, all are of Mary Petersen as a small child, after a bath, playing a toy piano, and with Petersen’s dog Tink. Two of them are in borders.

Portrait bust created of the Pulitzer Prize winner before the Author’s Club Dinner, Iowa State Fair, 1939.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Modeled at the Iowa State Fair, 1939.

Portrait bust. Cast by Bronze, Inc. of Chicago, IL.