Bas Relief

Bas relief of Petersen’s parents, Helene and Peter Petersen.

Bas relief. Three-quarters view of the painter facing right, palette and brushes in hand. Damaged.

Portrait bust or bas relief. Publisher of National Magazine, Boston, MA.

Bust portrait of Petersen’s friend John Cotton Dana (1856-1929) who was Director of the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey.

Portrait bust or bas relief, possibly of Petersen’s eldest daughter.

Portrait medallion of Reverend John W. Moore, C.M. (1859-1925), President of St. John’s University, Brooklyn, NY, 1907 – 1925.

Bas relief of Samuel Morse (1791-1872), an artist who invented the telegraph in 1837, wearing medals.

Memorial bas relief plaque for World War I soldiers.

Memorial plaque of superintendent of Pawtucket, RI, School System, 1906–1920s. Frank Ormand Draper (1862-1922), Brown University class of 1886; 1886-92 principal of Garden Street Grammar School in Pawtucket; superintendent of schools Lincoln and Central Falls, R.I.…

Memorial plaque of Flynn, World War I nurse in uniform, who served during the 1919 Influenza epidemic.

Bas relief portrait of United States Supreme Court Justice, made for Balfour Company. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division in 1916 from original in walnut.

Rondel portrait bust bas relief. Kuhns was president of Bankers Life, Iowa. Signed across the bottom GEO KUHNS.

Bas relief of a whaleship under full sail.

Portrait medallion of Harvard University president

Portrait plaque. Rostron (1869-1940) was the Captain of the ocean liner Carpathia, which rescued the passengers of the Titanic when it sank on April 14, 1912. Petersen probably created this medallion for the Robbins Company of Attleboro, MA or Whitehead & Hoag, Newark, NJ.

Plaque with two men, bust length, in profile facing left. Honoring founders of Wood Brothers Thresher Company of Des Moines, IA. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Memorial tablet honoring Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Franciscan missionary and explorer of the Southwest United States during the late 18th century. He is known for his journal, in which he described the expeditions he went on. Tablet features a relief map of Utah and…

Bas relief portrait of American painter, seated with painter’s brushes and palette.

Bas relief portrait of German hospital surgeon and gynecological professor at the Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Albert Goldspohn (1853-1929) won international recognition for devising and improving a technique for abdominal surgery and was a frequent contributor to medical…

Man with hair brushed back

Figure or bas relief.

Bas relief portrait of Reimund Baumann (1874-1958), a former judge and governor of the Danish West Indies, Consul-general from 1921-1947 at the Embassy of Denmark, Chicago, IL.

Bas relief portrait of Iowa pioneer settler. State of Iowa curator Edgar R. Harlan’s father-in-law.

Tablet of Hadley, second vice-president of Equitable of Iowa Companies, Des Moines, Iowa. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Industrial safety award medallion. Figure in Trojan dress with a shield and arm out protecting a male figure in modern dress holding a hammer. The figures are in the center of a structure with columns to each side with reliefs of oats and places to add the winner’s names.…

Profile of a little girl with curly hair. Daughter of a Chicago friend of Petersens.

Portrait plaque of Sac and Fox tribal leaders.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Voldeng (1863-1934). Superintendent at several Iowa hospitals, an asylum, and private practitioner in Des Moines, Iowa.

Bas relief of unknown boy.

Profile bas relief of director of State of Iowa library.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Annie Merner Pfeiffer (1860-1946) whose philanthropy extended to institutions around the world.

Reece Stuart III and Hamilton B. Stuart; children of Reece Stuart Jr., writer at Des Moines Register.

Portrait plaque of Governor of Iowa from 1913–1917.

Portrait plaque of Governor of Iowa from 1913–1917.

Bas relief portrait of first principal of Theodore Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa who died in 1934 of pneumonia. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division. Unveiled April 17, 1935 at Roosevelt High School. The plaque was purchased with funds raised by students and…

Mold.

Portrait bust or bas relief.

Portrait busts or bas relief, daughters of Richard De Jong.

Bas relief portrait; commissioned by vice presidents of Iowa Des Moines National Bank.

Portrait bust or bas relief of boy, George (1928-2008).

Portraits of Amos and Alice Emery. Mr. Emery provided Petersen with studio space in his architectural office.

Bas relief portrait of Charlotte Petersen’s parents, mounted on wood.

Bas relief portrait of the nephew of Margaret Wilhelm, age 3, and son of the James Rubey Harlan and Wilhelmina F. (Wilhelm) Harlan.

Portrait busts or bas relief of sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lorentzen.

Portrait, done in lieu of rent due, of owner of the Elliott Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa - Willis Newsome was the manager.

Portrait plaque. Rose Sheuerman Shloss married to Max Shloss, president of Lederer and Strauss and Company, was a widely recognized philanthropist.

Bas relief portrait of Smith (1866-1947) Chairman, English Department, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. A prolific poet, Smith published numerous poems and plays in his tenure.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Mrs. Genevieve Anderson Pierson Spaulding, wife of director of Des Moines Public Library.

Portrait bust or bas relief, son Eastman (1894-1971) of James Bellamy Weaver.

Portrait bust or bas relief of a Des Moines attorney and state representative James Bellamy Weaver (1861-1940) son of James Baird Weaver.

Portrait bust or bas relief

Part of a series of portrait plaques of company presidents and city founders of Des Moines commissioned by Equitable of Iowa Companies. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Part of a series of portrait plaques of company presidents and city founders of Des Moines commissioned by Equitable of Iowa Companies. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Created after Petersen’s first visit to Iowa in the early 1920s.

Part of a series of portrait plaques of company presidents and city founders of Des Moines commissioned by Equitable of Iowa Companies. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Part of a series of portrait plaques of company presidents and city founders of Des Moines commissioned by Equitable of Iowa Companies. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Part of a series of portrait plaques of company presidents and city founders of Des Moines commissioned by Equitable of Iowa Companies. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division. Exhibited at Yonkers Tea Room, 1933.

Part of a series of portrait plaques of company presidents and city founders of Des Moines commissioned by Equitable of Iowa Companies. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Portrait plaque of the president of the Des Moines Savings Bank, Iowa.

Bas relief, wife of Simon Cassidy.

Portrait plaque of Des Moines Register and Tribune publisher. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Portrait bust or bas relief

Bas-relief of man in profile, sitting in a chair. Goodson was one of the engineers engaged in the raising of the battleship Maine.

Bas relief of George Anson Jewett facing to the left front, founder of Jewett Lumber Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Heraldic mark at top left. Co-inventor of the Duplex and Jewett typewriter, and owner Jewett Typewriter Company.

Bas relief of son of Rabbi and Mrs. Eugene Mannheimer.

Portrait plaque of director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division. Mold destroyed in 1948.

Low relief plaque for consideration for commission for Mishawaka, Indiana, Centennial. The sculpture design was selected for the town among dozens of competing designs by noted sculptors from the east and west.

Portrait bust or bas relief

One of three bas reliefs for his friends Jessica Wellbourn Smith, Professor Lewis Worthington Smith of Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and their daughter Marjorie E.B.W. Smith.

One of three bas reliefs of the Smith family.

One of three bas reliefs of the Smith family.

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…

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…

Bas relief portraits of the sons of close friends of Petersen’s in Des Moines, Iowa.

This plaque commemorates the visit to Iowa State College of Ireland’s poet laureate, working under the auspices of the Authors and Poets Club.

Bas relief portrait plaque of the children of Mr. And Mrs. D.L. Holl.

Two reclining nude figures on either side of a small fountain. Fountain and pool were removed for conservation from Roberts Hall in 1998 and installed in the Anderson Sculpture Garden in 2015.

Three bas reliefs of athletes: football player carrying ball; male basketball player poised shooting free throw, and a man sprinting. Each panel is composed of five horizontal panel sections. The original building was called the Men’s Gymnasium.

Bas relief of Petersen’s student at Iowa State College.

Arched plaque with a frontal portrait.

Bas relief portrait of pastor of Collegiate Presbyterian Church. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Bas relief medallion. Woman in profile facing right.

Bust portrait or bas relief, dean, College of Engineering, Iowa State College

Bas relief plaque of President of the University of Kentucky. Commission received Feb. 23, dedicated Nov. 22, 1938.

Bas relief portrait of sons of the president of North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. Joseph Edward Ed Rall (background) and David Platt Rall (foreground). Ed Rall would go on to complete groundbreaking research on the thyroid, founded one of the world’s leading…

Bas relief portrait of Sunday school superintendent of Collegiate Presbyterian Church, and superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Iowa State College. Cast by the Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Portrait bas relief of academic chairman, Chemical Engineering, Iowa State College.

The mural consists of forty–four blocks. It depicts the services the veterinary profession performs in conserving the life and health of domestic animals, thereby safeguarding the health of humans. Clay donated by the Fort Dodge Chamber of Commerce.

Bas relief portrait created for close friends of Petersens.

Bas relief sculpture of an athlete

Bas relief portrait of founder, Home Federal Savings and Loan, Des Moines, Iowa.

Bas relief of three female children seated on a couch.

Memorial plaque with bust of genetics professor at Iowa State College. His outstanding work was in the chromosome mapping of corn and the quantitative inheritance of tomato polyploidy.

Portrait bas relief of conductor presented to him when he left as Music Director of the Minneapolis Symphony, participant in the Iowa State Concert Series, for the New York Philharmonic. Commissioned by Tolbert MacRae, head of the Iowa State College Music Department from…

Portrait bas relief of conductor presented to him when he left as Music Director of the Minneapolis Symphony, participant in the Iowa State Concert Series, for the New York Philharmonic. Commissioned by Tolbert MacRae, head of the Iowa State College Music Department from…

Portrait bas relief of conductor; copy of bronze one given to him when he left his position as Music Director for the Minneapolis Symphony, participant in the Iowa State Concert Series, for the New York Philharmonic.

Bas relief of two children, a boy and girl.

Bas relief portrait of the pastor of Collegiate Methodist Church in Ames, Iowa from 1935 to 1960.

Portrait relief

Portrait plaque of lawyer and New Jersey State Senator.

High relief of head of a Viking

Bas relief portrait plaque of children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Weiss.

Relief portrait of business and diplomatic head of a Congregational missionary society in Istanbul, Turkey, who spent the last two years of his life in Ames and became friends with the Petersen family.

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

Two plaster molds commissioned by Alice M. and Jack D. Rector of their son John at five months old. A bronze was cast by the owner from one of the two molds given them by Petersen.

Bas relief, mounted on wood, of the artist’s wife and daughter. Charlotte is portrayed with short cropped hair in a side view with her daughter Mary in front of her also with short hair. The mold is of the head and shoulders.

Bas relief of two young girls in profile. Daughters of William H. Schrampfer, who helped establish the College of Business, and Frances N. Schrampfer, a teacher and counselor in the Ames Public School System.

Bas relief portraits of owners of Tri-States Theaters and donors of Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division. L. Ginsbert & Sons, Des Moines, IA, facilitated the commission.

Green glazed tiles designed by Petersen, produced by the Department of Ceramic Engineering and Iowa State College and given as 1948 VEISHEA souvenirs.

The round plaque is designed with a center image of a woman who wears a long dress. Both arms are extended out and appear to rest on a ledge. There are smaller images along the edge and across the middle of the plaque.

Bas relief plaque. Adams was Petersen’s colleague on Public Works of Art Project at Iowa City, and they became reacquainted when they both lived in Ames.

A side profile of Ralph K. Bliss, Director of Agricultural Extension at Iowa State. He wears a coat and tie and glasses.

Plaster mold of Christ on the Cross. It is a front view to the waist and shows only his arms to the elbows.

Portrait relief of the son of one of Petersen’s students.

Figures of the patron saint of music and a cherub in a lunette.

Unfinished figure for the sculpture for the Parish of Saint Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa.

Bas relief on the west façade of the Agronomy Building, an Iowa farmland theme depicting sky, seed and soil, the fundamental agronomy study areas.

Bas relief portrait. Christian and Charlotte Petersen were godparents at Philip’s baptism.

Bas relief portrait in profile of manager of the Des Moines Municipal Airport, Iowa.

Bas relief portrait plaque. High School Principal (1941-1954), Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa.

Frontal view of Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer.

Portrait plaque

Memorial bas relief for ten-year-old who was struck and killed by a car. Previously installed at Roosevelt School, Ames, Iowa. Dedicated February 20, 1957.

Memorial bas relief medallion honoring original donor of Des Moines Art Center.

Bas relief portrait of pastor of Collegiate Presbyterian Church from 1934–1961.

Portrait bas relief, Pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Des Moines, Iowa and father of famed pianist Roger Williams.

Listed as damaged in 1964 sale record.

Mold.

Plaque and mold shows a bust view of a man wearing a tie, in a circle. Buell was an early settler of Iowa and had a career piloting Great Lakes and Mississippi River vessels.

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…

Mold. Possibly Estelle Garvey, Charlotte’s mother.

Roundel of a youthful girl.

Mold, negative.

Bas relief portrait of man with moustache facing viewer and writing in a book.

Mold of bas relief of older man, facing viewer. Possibly Charlotte Petersen’s father, William Garvey.

Bas relief of figure cut off at knees, holding violin to right on plaque.

Bas relief; Anson Marston, Dean (1904-1932) of the Division of Engineering, commissioned these bas reliefs of granddaughters Alice and Lucy. The reliefs were sculpted by Petersen within Marston Hall, then known as Engineering Hall I.

Bas relief; Anson Marston, Dean (1904-1932) of the Division of Engineering, commissioned these bas reliefs of granddaughters Alice and Lucy. The reliefs were sculpted by Petersen within Marston Hall, then known as Engineering Hall I.

Bas relief of standing bearded man with book in right hand.

The artist’s wife, Charlotte, told Mrs. Uhrig that the two men shown in profile are Charlotte’s nephews.

Bas relief plaque of a man in profile facing left.

Sculpture of Michael Schroeder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Schroeder.

Girl wears 1920s style short dress with bows at shoulders; holds puppy with both arms, head bent down slightly.

Portrait bust.

Woman with bobbed hair. Green-grey color.

Memorial plaque may have been executed by Petersen from a design by George Nerney. Unveiled in Capron Park, Attleboro on October 5th, 1919. Melted during a World War II scrap metal drive, according to photograph caption in Papers, SC.

Bas relief portrait of the daughter of J.C. Cunningham.

This medallion features an adult Saint Christopher with a child Jesus on his shoulder. The medallion was reproduced for sale by Saint Cecilia Church in the 1960s.

Reproduced by Mrs. C. Edward Christians, Des Moines, Iowa, from 1910 bronze bas relief of Petersen’s parents, Helene and Peter Petersen.

Bas relief, one fallen WWI solider on the ground, the other solider stands over him with bayoneted gun and hand outstretched above to flying eagle.

Roundel portrait of Abe Lincoln.

Portrait bas relief based on a photograph. Howard Webster Byers (1856-1928) was originally from Woodstock, Wisconsin. He moved to Iowa in 1873 and, beginning in 1888, practiced as a lawyer in Harlan, Iowa. He came to Des Moines as a state representative and eventually…

Preliminary model for large-scale "Veterinary Medicine Mural".

Roundel featuring an older St. Christopher with staff carrying Christ.

Bronze cast from 1928 original painted plaster roundel. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1936 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Cast of 1916 original plaster bas relief. Three-quarters view of painter facing right, palette and brushes in hand.

Cast of 1930 original painted plaster portrait plaque of Meskwaki leader. Cast by Francis Miller, Conserve Art, LLC, Hamden, CT.

Cast of 2007 casting of 1930 original painted plaster portrait plaque of Meskwaki leader. Cast by Francis Miller, Conserve Art, LLC, Hamden, CT.

Bust portrait of dean of the School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Bust portrait of 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Bas relief. Cast by Gorham Co., Bronze Division, July 25, 1919.

Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Bas relief of Kuhns facing right. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Melzar Hunt Mosman (1843 – 1926) was an American sculptor who made a number of Civil War and Spanish–American War monuments in Massachusetts. His father, Silas Mosman, ran the Ames Manufacturing Company’s bronze foundry that made statues and monuments at which Melzar…

Plaster bas relief of young girl holding a horse toy.

Ceramic tile by ISU Art Pottery, beige glaze, framed in wood, depicts a male figure stooped over a container or throwing a pot. A VEISHEA college celebration souvenir.

Boy relief sculpture, (possibly from Joy fountain)

Roundel with a profile view of the father of Helen Nerney Shaw and father-in-law of Petersen’s friend, George Nerney.

Bas relief of the two children of Robert and Margaret Blumenschein who lived around the corner to Petersen on Ash Ave. in Ames, IA

Plaque with standing full figure of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Top right corner has Presidential-like crest with eagle.

Roundel of Michael Sidney Lenrow, born in Ames, in 1932, and his brother Peter Lenrow, born in Ames in 1934. Their parents were Bernard Lenrow, director of the Iowa State Players from 1932 to 1936, and Libby Lenrow.

Plaque depicts bust of Christian Petersen’s younger sister, Anna Fredrica Petersen, facing right. Anna F. Petersen would go on to marry Josiah Everett Draper, a jeweler, from a long line of silversmiths based in Attleboro, MA.

A roundel of a farmer in front of a hog feeder caring a suspended sack between two poles. Two women in foreground - one picking corn and the other haling a jug. Five pigs are at the farmer’s feet, possibly of the Chester White variety or a crossbred.

An oval roundel of two Civil War era soldiers in Union uniforms. One soldier kneels in the grass with his rifle pointed up. The second soldier is standing to his left with gun in hand.

An oval roundel of two women in Medieval style apparel in a treed area. One woman is seated while the other stands next to her.

Roundel of baby looking left.

Roundel of the profile of an older man in suit and tie looking right.

Bas relief of profile of George Anson Jewett facing left, founder of Jewett Lumber Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Heraldic mark at top left. Jewett was the co-inventor of the Duplex and Jewett typewriter, and owner Jewett Typewriter Company.

Positive plaster mold and bas relief cast in bronze. Hubbell wears glasses in this portrait.

Plaster mold for bas relief of Christ with the cross over his shoulder and other arm presenting the symbol of peace while two nuns look on.

Arched plaque with a frontal portrait.

Bas relief of DeMille, the movie director, flanked by scenes from two of his famous Biblical movies. DeMille was the guest of honor in May 1952 for the annual VEISHEA celebration at Iowa State.

Bas relief Abraham Lincoln facing right on the Harcourt, IA, gymnasium / auditorium, a WPA project. Architect was Thorwald Thorson Architects of Forest City, IA.

Bas relief profile of FDR facing left on the Harcourt, IA, gymnasium / auditorium, a WPA project. Architect was Thorwald Thorson Architects of Forest City, IA.

Bas relief profile to the waist of a man and woman holding a basketball facing left on the Harcourt, IA, gymnasium / auditorium, a WPA project. Architect was Thorwald Thorson Architects of Forest City, IA.

Sculptural relief depicting a figure and two oxen pulling a covered wagon across a prairie. Plow handles are visible protruding from the back of the wagon. Above the low relief of a covered wagon crossing a prairie. Dedicated June 18, 1928.