1942

Portrait bust of the Danish editor of Julegranen Magazine.

Portrait bust of Mildred Catherine Meader Finegan, sculpted at a Faculty Women’s Club meeting at Iowa State, January 1942. Her husband, Jack, was head of the department and professor of Religious Education. The model was a close friend of the artist’s wife Charlotte.

Model for sculpture and fountain.

Three toddlers, approximately life-size, sitting at the edge of a pool. Designed for grounds of College of Home Economics, MacKay Hall. Figures moved indoors inside MacKay Hall after being conserved in 1991. 1994 outdoor reproduction of reinforced concrete by Mayda Jensen,…

Crouching World War II soldier beside fallen World War I doughboy. Proposed war memorial honoring service men from World Wars I and II.

Bas relief plaque. Side view of three children (Dave, John, Jean) all facing to the left.

Portrait of the academic head of Agriculture Journalism from 1908–1911, for the Department of Technical Journalism. Created at the Iowa State Fair, 1942.

Sketch of Engineering Hall (now Marston Hall), with figure sculptures placed in entry alcoves.

Sketch of a little girl standing, bust of a boy, grouping of flowers, and a color study.

Studies of children playing at Iowa State’s Child Development Lab.

This series shows the progression of ideas for shapes of the reflecting pool, themes for figures, and orientation with the south facade of MacKay Hall.

Study of three rectangular pools with figures.

Study of three nude children standing at the edge of a rectangular reflecting pool.

Study depicting woman and children seated and standing around a pool basin.

Studies of four figures, kneeling and holding a plant, lying down, and sitting and holding a plant.

Seven studies of children playing. When Petersen was mulling over ideas for the Home Economics fountain sculpture, his wife Charlotte suggested he observe children playing at the child development lab nursery school. He later used those ideas for the fountain proposal.

Study of three figures, central woman flanked by a teen boy and girl.

Study of a fountain and MacKay Hall.

Study of a fountain with children.

Detailed study of one of many preliminary concepts. Depicts round and rectangular pools.

Study of fountain with children. Central boy figure pulling a fish from the pool.

Study depicting rectangular and circular pools with small children, MacKay Hall in the background.

Study of two children at play on a circular pool.

Preliminary study of MacKay Hall and fountain.

Study of proposed fountain.

Seated profile, front view and various other sketches of a soldier. Probably a preliminary sketch for Carry On.

The artist’s daughter wearing winter clothes with a hood and scarf. She is on a swing.

Three children in profile.

Top image of a cluster of children along a wall, below image a of a rectangular pool and a site plan for Home Economics Building.

Gift from the artist to Earl Hansen, ca. 1942-43, for his wife Frances Kallus Hansen on the occasion of their marriage. Frances was a student of Petersen’s.