Fountain or Pool

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…

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.

Four kneeling figures of Native American women equally spaced around a fountain ring. The ring design is sprouting corn. Dedicated at VEISHEA May 1941.

Original plaster models for Fountain of the Four Seasons figures.

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,…

Preliminary model of Saint Cecilia seated with children at the end of a pool. Pool was later removed by owner. Saint Cecilia was replaced with the Virgin Mary in the final version.

Model for terra cotta Madonna of the Schools at Saint Cecilia School in Ames, Iowa.

Nude man holds nude male child in his upraised hands. Sculpture sits on a rectangular base in a pond. Petersen’s final sculpture, modeled and signed by the artist, but cast after his death. Cast by Roman Bronze Works, Chicago, IL. Orlandi Statuary Co., Chicago, IL.

Studies for fountain for A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company in Decatur, Illinois. Fountain and reflecting pool were completed in 1930 and destroyed in 1950.

Sketch of a three tiered fountain surrounded by three figures.

Circular fountain with sculpture in center front; central area with sculpted panel; arched openings to either side.

Early study for the fountain with a square pool and three figures, one standing holding a container out of which water pours.

Sketches of four fountains: cows, three figures, two figures. Bottom fountain alludes to "Reclining Nudes".

Study of a cow laying down in a center panel with three panels to side.

Men, women and cattle involved in dairying activities in a mural behind a central sculpture of a standing female holding a container out of which water pours.

Sketch of a fountain or pool with a nude female figure in front of a central campus building.

Sketch of a nude female figure standing in the middle of a pool.

Panel concepts with details and a fountain.

Study of a sculpture and a fountain, one with a tiered base and one with an urn basin.

Sketch of an octagonal fountain with two figures and one head of a pig.

A preparatory study for the "Reclining Nudes" fountain, with two people lying down.

Two roughly sketched figures with circular shaped fountain below.

Study of archways of a building, Roberts Hall, with two figures in the foreground.

Three studies of a sculpture with a woman on her knees by a reflecting pool, possibly for "Reclining Nudes".

Study of two kneeling figures at the head of a rectangular pool, building behind. Second sketch of long pool with statue at the head and flanked by two elk, one on each side.

A sculpture centered on a semi-circular fountain, aerial design view.

Courtyard with figures leading to a major sculpture.

Rapid sketch of what could have been Petersen’s idea for an Ames Brookside Park Fountain, including an image of a Boy Scout.

Study of a sculpture. An idea for Brookside Park fountain.

Side and top views of an octagonal shaped fountain with bas relief panels.

Circle with a horse jumping out of a hexagon design in the center.

Sketch of a sculpture and fountain with figures, of which two have upraised arms.

A rapid sketch concept for a fountain.

Sketch of an adult and child by a three-stepped fountain pool.

Various assortment of figure motion studies for a fountain.

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.

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.

Depicts two female students sitting atop a wall around a circular pool with central fountain. Possible proposal study for "Fountain of the Five Colleges".

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

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.

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.

Concept study for siting of fountain, pool and/or sculptures.

Study of proposed fountain.

Sketches of two semicircles with figures and a sculpture and lectern, possibly a fountain, at the center.

Studies of children and nun holding hands circling a three-tiered fountain, with five studies of side elevation, three from the top view, and two other details.

Three studies of a fountain sculpture with children and nun.

Studies of two religious figures and four children around a circular pool and fountain.

Study of fountain concept and landscape.

Sixteen sketches of figures in various poses, likely religious, and people kneeling.

Sketch of five figures and a fountain.

Figure sketch of a woman draped in a long cloth and seven smaller sketches including a fountain pool. Possibly for a war memorial.

Three sketches of two nude figures at fountain, one with arms above head holding a tray.

Two gestural sketches of circular and rectangular pools.

Quick site sketch of trees, a stream and a fountain.

Ten sketches of nude, single and group figures possibly for a fountain.

Fountain and reflecting pool. Cast by T.F. McGann & Sons, Boston, MA.

Forty-two reproductions of the 1943 original were made by Foster Willey of Minneapolis, Minnesota. One was purchased for the Brunnier Art Museum, one for University Museums education program, and forty were presented as gifts to donors, Family and Consumer Sciences…

Concrete reproduction of children from the 1942 original. Concrete pigmented to terra cotta color. Casting commissioned by University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Casting done by Mayda Jensen Conservation, Omaha, Nebraska.

Girl with arms raised, ”the personifications of youth.”

Bronze cast from ca. 1938 plaster original. Cast by JAM Studio, Blaine, MN. Model of a children’s fountain which depicts children in bas relief playing and dancing around the periphery of the fountain. The drinking fountain was proposed for Brookside Park in Ames, Iowa.

Bronze cast from ca. 1938 plaster original. Cast by JAM Studio, Blaine, MN. Model of a children’s fountain which depicts children in bas relief playing and dancing around the periphery of the fountain. The drinking fountain was proposed for Brookside Park in Ames, Iowa.

One detailed sketch of the four maiden fountain concept and one sketch of the bas relief surround.