Additional Sources

Video Sources

Christian Petersen. (2007). Ames, Iowa]: Iowa State University.

Varnum, B., Weiss, E., Varnum, James M, WOI-TV, & Iowa State University. (2007). Expedition Christian Petersen / WOI-TV ; Iowa State University ; produced by Betty Lou McVay, Edward Weiss ; directed by James Varnum. Ames, Iowa]: Iowa State University.

VEISHEA Iowa State College, 1942. (2006). Ames, Iowa]: Iowa State University, Information Technology Services.

Newspapers

City Pages.com Friday, December 9, 2016 “Battle rages over racist paintings in the Minnesota State Capitol”

Des Moines Register, April 4, 1937 – “A Little Bear” Who Lived in Tama, Iowa”

Des Moines Register, August 13, 1940 “New Statue for Campus”

Des Moines Register, March 8, 1941 “Halla Rhode, Teacher, Dies”

Des Moines Register, May 4, 1941 “Expect 20,000 AT I.S.C. Fete”

Des Moines Register, July 14, 1941 “E.R. Harlan, Iowa Curator 29 Years, Dies”

Des Moines Tribune, August 15, 1942 – Bessie Coon death notice

Dubuque Telegraph Dec, 1937 “Historical Unit Staff Revised”

“From a Die Cutter to a Sculptor; Interesting Story Is That of Evolution of Christian Petersen, of Attleboro, A Newcomer in the Field of Sculpture -- He Is the Man Who Is to Do the Battery D Memorial Statue,” by Minna Littmann, probably for a New Bedford, Massachusetts newspaper, c;. 1923.

“Equality Park Selected; Site Chosen for Spanish War Monument,” The Newport [Rhode Island] Daily News, May 21, 1923.

“Interesting Story Is That of Evolution of Christian Petersen, of Attleboro, a Newcomer in the Field of Sculpture -- He Is the Man Who Is to Do the Battery D Memorial Statue,” unidentified clipping in Christian Petersen Papers, probably c. 1923

Iowa State Daily, August 30, 2016 “The cultural identity of the Fountain of the Four Seasons”

Littman, Minna, “From a Die Cutter to a Scultor,” clipping from unidentified newspaper, probably from New Bedford, Massachusetts, c. 1923-24

Macdonald, William A., “The Rise of a New Paul Revere,” Boston Transcript, June 23, 1918. Clipping in CPP.

National Magazine, January 1922. (Author unidentified)

Ottumwa Daily Courier, May 9, 1941 “Veishea Opens At Iowa State College”

Synnott, Terrence, “Art committee launches campaign to restore two statues on Broadway,” Newport Daily News, November 13, 1998; includes contemporary photography of portion of sculpture.

Special Collections

Drake University Cowles Library Special Collections

                Harlan Papers, Ref File I IX165 1934 (Halla Rhode)

Iowa State University Library Special Collections

                Christian Petersen Collection RS 26/2/52

                Jules Cool Cunningham Papers RS 9/16/53

State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines Research Center

Harlan Papers, File 49v, Part 46, Group 2

Harlan Papers, File 49G, Part 15 Group 2

Harlan Papers, File 49G, Part 15, Group 5

Harlan Papers, File 49Y, Part 51

Harlan Papers, File 25 B, Part 3 group 11

Halla Rhode Papers

Published Source

Bliss, Patricia Lounsbury. Christian Petersen Remembered, Iowa State University Press 1986.

Delong, Lea Rosson. Christian Petersen Sculptor, Ames. Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Delong, Lea Rosson. Christian Petersen: Urban Artist, 1900-1934, Ames. University Museums, Iowa State University, 2007.

 Delong, Lea Rosson. “Petersen, Christian” The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa.  University of Iowa Press, 2009.

Madden, W., Madison, O., Pohlman, L., Wintersteen, W., & Brunnier Art Museum. (2006). When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: Grant Wood and Christian Petersen murals / Lea Rosson Delong; with forwards by Warren R. Madden, Olivia M.A. Madison, Lynette L. Pohlman, Wendy K. Wintersteen. (1st ed.). Ames, Iowa: Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University.             

Dictionary of American Sculptors, edited by Glenn B. Opitz, Poughkeepsie, New York: Apollo, 1984, 311.

Dwelle, Jessie Merril, Iowa Beautiful Land; a History of Iowa, Mason City, Iowa: Klipto Loose Leaf Company, 1958 (edition revised by Ruth H. Wagner), 183.

The Encyclopedia of Sculpture, vol.3 (P-Z), Antonia Bostrom, editor, New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, 1523.

Iowa State University. Alumni Association. (2011). The artistry of Christian Petersen at Iowa State University Ames, Iowa. Ames, Iowa: ISU Alumni Association.

O'Donnell, J., & Iowa State University. University Museums. (2015). Campus Beautiful: Shaping the aesthetic identity of Iowa State University / essays by Jason Alread, Lea Rosson DeLong, Mark C. Engelbrecht, Warren R. Madden, Paula A. Mohr, Jodi O'Donnell, Lynette L. Pohlman, Wesley I. Shank, and Richard Guy Wilson ; edited by Jodi O'Donnell. (First ed.).

Olson, Greg. "Christian Petersen: Sculptor." The Annals of Iowa 60 (2001), 288-289. Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol60/iss3/17

Petersen, C., & Bliss, Patricia Lounsbury. (1985). Christian Petersen, sculptor, 1885-1961 : An illustrated guide to his works in the Ames-Gilbert vicinity, on the Iowa State University campus, and in the state of Iowa / [Patricia Lounsbury Bliss]. Bettendorf, Iowa: Pegasus Productions.

Petersen, Christian. (1939). Hello Beautiful. Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives; http://archives.lib.iastate.edu/.

Petersen, Christian, Lea Rosson. DeLong, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Lynette L. Pohlman. All the Evils--: Christian Petersen and the Art of War. Ames: Christian Petersen Art Museum, U Museums, Iowa State U, 2009. Print.

Rhode, H., Petersen, C., & Coon, B. (1936). Cha-ki-shi, by Halla Rhode ... and Bessie Coon ... drawings by Christian Petersen. New York, Chicago, [etc.: C. Scribner's sons.

Robertson, Breanne. “The Cultivation of Corn in the Mayan and Modern Times: Lowell Houser’s Winning Design for the Ames Mural Competition.”  The Annals of Iowa 70 (2011, 36-66.

Senter, Reneé Thomason, & Iowa State University. University Museums. (2000). Christian Petersen, sculptor : A guide for educators / Reneé Thomason Senter. Ames. Iowa: University Museums, Iowa State University.

Wilson, Geraldine L. Christian Petersen, sculptor. Ames, Iowa State University Press. 1962.

Exhibitions/Publications

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen: Selections from the Collection. 01/11/2016 - 06/10/2016

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen Remembered: Selections from the Permanent Collection. 05/07/2013 - 08/04/2013

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Remembering the Sculpture of Christian Petersen. 05/14/2012 - 08/03/2012

The University Museums, Iowa State University. All the Evils: Christian Petersen and the Art of War. 01/11/2010 - 08/06/2010

Petersen, Christian, Lea Rosson. DeLong, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Lynette L. Pohlman. All the Evils--: Christian Petersen and the Art of War. Ames: Christian Petersen Art Museum, U Museums, Iowa State U, 2009. Print.

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen: Campus Sculptor: The Founding Artist of the Art on Campus Collection. 8/25/2008 - 02/12/2009

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen: Urban Artist, 1900-1933. 03/22/2007 - 08/08/2007

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen: Campus Sculptor, 1934-1961. 03/16/2007 - 08/03/2007

The University Museums, Iowa State University. When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: Grant Wood and Christian Petersen Murals. 09/12/2006 - 11/27/2006

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen: Regionalist Sculptor. 05/21/2005 - 12/30/2005

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Regionalist Sculptor, Christian Petersen. 08/31/2004 - 05/15/2005

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen's Midwest. 01/13/2004 - 08/07/2004

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen. 08/27/2002 - 03/30/2002

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen and Lee Allen: After the Iowa Project. 08/28/2001 - 11/25/2001

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen, Sculptor. 08/22/2000 - 12/31/2000

The University Museums, Iowa State University. The Gentle Sculptor: Christian Petersen. 07/09/1998 - 08/15/1998

The University Museums, Iowa State University. Christian Petersen: Images of Youth. 01/26/1988 - 03/23/1988

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 112^th Annual Exhibition. 02/4/1917 – 3/25/1917. Portrait of Josian Everett Draper by Christian Petersen is number 531 in the catalogue.

Department of Special Collections, Iowa State University Library. Christian Petersen Exhibit. 4/6/1972 – 7/14/1972.