History of Dairying

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…

Sketch of three arches likely for "The History of Dairying Mural".

Sketch of a fireplace with mantel sculptures of cattle, figures and trees. Possibly for the Dairy Industry Building (now Food Sciences) interior 2nd floor.

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

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

Perspective study of courtyard and fountain concept with cattle. Mathematical figuring done in center of paper.

Three studies of a cow standing and laying down.

Two studies of a cow’s head, a preliminary study for fountain figures.

Study of cows being milked by man and woman in foreground. Fireplace and mantle study with cow and milking in the the background.

Studies of sculptures with cows for a mantelpiece sculpture.

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 nude woman holding an urn.

Study of a man sitting in the pose of Rodin’s "The Thinker" and two women, one of whom is churning butter.

Three studies of a woman, two with hands extended, as if holding the dasher for a dairy churn.

Three sizes of studies of a woman holding a bowl.

Early concepts for interior panels of Dairy Industry Building. Two studies on separate pages attached to a larger sheet. Left sketch shows a kneeling female figure in profile, and the words 1000 BC in pencil. Right study shows a standing male figure using a churn and the…

Study of central panel, depicting three cows and a bull.

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

Study of cows and herdsmen. Possibly for the Dairy Industry Building (now Food Sciences) interior 2nd floor.

Study of a cow and people milking cows. Possibly for the Dairy Industry Building (now Food Sciences) interior 2nd floor.

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

Lecture by Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong, Sept. 17, 2006

A lecture on the history of Christian Petersen by Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong given Oct. 15, 2005 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Lecture for the American Art Pottery Association Conference by Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong on April 26, 2018 at Iowa State University.