680. Study for Pioneer Woman

c. 1938

Charcoal on paper

14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm)

Studies for Pioneer Woman. Potentially a war memorial. The model may have been Hazel Allen Lipa, professor of English at Iowa State College.

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Charlotte Petersen; Mary Petersen; CPAC, Purchased by the Christian Petersen Memorial Fund. UM92.290

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Papers, SC, Box 2 f.2, Pioneer Woman/Alma Mater. 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 2 f. 4, Loomis to Fisher, October 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 might go some 120 feet east and south of the campanile”; Box 2, f.4, meeting with Hansen, Ness, Fisher; n.d. possible CP projects include “bird bath as memorial but not placed in cemetery” “Alma Mater fountain…”.