225. Pioneer Woman (Alma Mater)

1938

Plaster

23 x 7 x 6 in. (58.4 x 17.8 x 15.2 cm)

Proposal for the Iowa State College Cemetery, this depicts a female figure in long skirts. The pioneer theme was used to suggest the rural background of the State of Iowa and Iowa State College.

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Charlotte Petersen; Private collection; CPAC, Anonymous gift in memory of Charlotte Petersen. UM89.19

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Papers, SC, Box 2 f.2, Pioneer “designed about 20 years ago for the college cemetery – depicts the Alma Mater or Mother thinking of her lost ones” Pioneer theme to represent rural background of Iowa and Iowa State; Box 4 f.4, Loomis to Fisher, Oct 1954 “willingness to do an Alma Mater…an Alma mater group in stone be placed across the street facing the [Union] fountain and on an axis with Gold Star Hall. The statue must go some 120 feet east and south of the campus” but not placed in “cemetery”; “Alma Mater fountain…”