Landscape

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…

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

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

A sketch which may have been done for "Julegranen" magazine.

Study of a row of bison walking in a landscape.

Study of a row of buffaloes walking in knee-deep snow. Two large ones at front, others in the distance.

Study of a Meskwaki family walking along a trail through the hills toward a village where people are waiting and waving.

Sketch of Iowa State’s campanile with a vision of an amphitheater in background.

A small building with one window behind a group of trees.

A small wooden church with a steeple and cross on top, in hills surrounded by trees.

Three figures in foreground walking toward a group of seated figures in the shade of a tree. One man stands with arms upraised in front of them with his back to the viewer either preaching or as a storyteller.

A scantily clad woman in profile, standing and hanging laundry on a clothesline hung between trees. A young boy watches her from the bottom right corner.

Sketch of a house and driveway.

Study of proposed fountain.

Sketch of the Armory for a war memorial concept.

Study of fountain concept and landscape.

Smaller sketch of a home in Gilbert, Iowa.

A man lying underneath of a tree. The image is of Petersen’s friend, J. C. Cunningham, taking a nap while they were on a canoe trip. A rare medium for Petersen.

Two men working at unloading grain or hay into farm machinery from wagons which have horses hitched to them. Barn and windmill center right, corn in background left center. Fence across lower right and center section.

Long range perspective sketch of a farmer and his wife looking over their land. Cattle in fields and fence along road. Barn and windmill in background.

Elevation sketches of an area on the Iowa State College campus, with trees and distances marked.

Central smokestack flanked by metal and wood buildings. Pigs in the foreground.

County line on Gilbert Road, Johnson’s farm. Impressionist style; trees on rolling hills. A rare medium for Petersen.

Sketch of a house plan. May be the Petersen home in Gilbert, which they remodeled over a long period of time.

Side elevation and ariel view of a building, possibly a building on campus.

Sketch of five figures and a fountain.

Recto: Two sketches: an aerial view of a circular courtyard or structure and one front view of a wall. Verso: a standing figure holding a stick with a marshmallow into a fire.

Sketch of six trees with underbrush.

Sketch of a building in Frascati, Italy, possibly for an illustration for "Julegranen" magazine.

Pocket notebook with sketch of a building.

Sketch for design and placement of proposed Amphitheater north across the street from "Fountain of the Four Seasons".

Probably the countryside near the Iowa State campus or the City of Ames.

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

Study of barren tree branches and other plant life with a field in the background.

Image of a rural two-story home in farm fields.

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.