Sculpture

Standing figure of the artist’s son, Lawrence, playing soldier. The boy is wearing a toy pail helmet and holding a wooden sword.

Bookend featuring the 26th U.S. President.

Bear at ledge. This is likely the first object with what would become Petersen’s "chop mark" signature.

Proposal for World War I memorial. Fallen soldier lifting a torch. Proposal presented in August of 1932 at the Iowa American Legion Convention in Ft. Dodge, IA.

Portrait bust or bas relief. Publisher of National Magazine, Boston, MA.

Standing figure of Columbus with a cross in his upraised right hand.

Sculpture of Daniel Goddard Crandon the first president of the Boston Ethical Society, founded in 1920. Crandon (1847-1936) was one of the pioneers of the chain store idea, having established the first of a chain of 99 cent stores in Boston, MA, Bangor, ME, and…

Portrait bust or bas relief, possibly of Petersen’s eldest daughter.

Free-standing figure of Petersen’s daughter standing in a fur-trimmed hooded coat while wind blows her skirts.

Bust portrait of Reverend John W. Moore, C.M. (1859-1925), President of St. John’s University, Brooklyn, NY, 1907 – 1925.

Portrait bust of a governor of Rhode Island, 1909-1915 and 1925-1928.

Figure of Paul Revere, colonial era silversmith and American Revolutionary folk hero

Portrait bust of governor of Rhode Island, 1921-1923.

A pair of felines acquired for an entrance gate to the Charles J. Davol Estate in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. One has dead deer under paw.

Bust of Beeckman (1866–1935), Governor of Rhode Island from 1915 to 1921.

Figure of a young Abraham Lincoln.

Female figure with torch and sword. Under her foot is the head of Medusa. Commissioned by Tilden-Thurber Company, Providence, Rhode Island, and cast at the Elmwood foundry of the Gorham Mfg. Co. 

Soldier in field uniform carrying an artillery shell ready to be loaded. Mounted on pink granite stone boulder at the corner of Kempton and Murray Streets. Cast by Continental Bronze Co., Pawtucket, RI.

Figure study of American explorer and naturalist.

Portrait bust of pioneer agricultural researcher at Iowa State College, and father of United States Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Cantwell Wallace was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Warren G. Harding and publisher of Wallace’s Farmer magazine.

Standing woman with head tilted back and arms reaching behind her. Created in a class taught by Petersen.

Bust of author Poe wearing a jacket, vest and necktie.

Figure or bas relief.

Portrait bust of Chicago architect, former Superintendent of Parks in Dubuque, Iowa, and landscape designer with the Chicago Park District responsible for the Lily Pool at Lincoln Park. Mentored by Jens Jensen.

Bust of Iowa pioneer, scholar, capitalist and philanthropist. Provided initial funding for the Des Moines Arts Center. Portrait done at the request of Edgar R. Harlan.

Portrait bust.

Portrait bust of Harlan, Director, Iowa’s State Historical, Memorial and Art Department in the 1920s and 1930s, who arranged some of Petersen’s early Iowa commissions and introduced him to Iowa State College President R. Hughes.

Male and female free-standing figures. The year 1920 is significant as it marked the 300th anniversary of events which led the founding of the Republic of the Statas of America – the Mayflower Compact and landing of the Pilgrims in 1620.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Voldeng (1863-1934). Superintendent at several Iowa hospitals, an asylum, and private practitioner in Des Moines, Iowa.

Sac and Fox Native American, son of Jonas Poweshiek.

Figure of Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish explorer and discoverer of the Bering Strait.

Portrait bust done in lieu of hotel rent in Belvidere, Illinois. Leslie "Reggie" Young Correthers, a Stone City colony student, an abstractionist that pursued many artistic avenues – poetry, writing, acting, and painting. He resided in the Rockford, IL area as an art…

Bust portrait of dean of the School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Annie Merner Pfeiffer (1860-1946) whose philanthropy extended to institutions around the world.

Portrait bust of Bishop Stewart (Aug 18, 1879 - My 2, 1940), 6th bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago (1930-40), former rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston.

Bust of landscape architect Jens Jensen created to honor his work with the Chicago parks system.

Portrait bust of Governor of Iowa from 1913–1917.

Portrait bust or bas relief.

Portrait busts or bas relief, daughters of Richard De Jong.

Portrait bust or bas relief of boy, George (1928-2008).

Portraits of Amos and Alice Emery. Mr. Emery provided Petersen with studio space in his architectural office.

Portrait bust of a young man

Portrait busts or bas relief of sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lorentzen.

Portrait, done in lieu of rent due, of owner of the Elliott Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa - Willis Newsome was the manager.

Portrait bust of a Des Moines physician.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Mrs. Genevieve Anderson Pierson Spaulding, wife of director of Des Moines Public Library.

Portrait bust or bas relief, son Eastman (1894-1971) of James Bellamy Weaver.

Portrait bust or bas relief of a Des Moines attorney and state representative James Bellamy Weaver (1861-1940) son of James Baird Weaver.

Known from exhibition checklist at Younkers Department Store, 1933.

Elongated image of Christ, hands lowered with palms out, wearing a long cloth around his waist. Shown on a truncated base with a slab behind the figure.

Bust of a man wearing a train engineer’s hat.

Portrait bust or bas relief

Portrait bust or bas relief

Portrait bust of Iowa senator and governor from 1933–1937.

Portrait bust of Iowa governor from 1937–1939.

Seated Abraham Lincoln figure. Model done for a competition in Milwaukee, WI, among 48 artists from across the United States; received second honorable mention.

Bas relief of son of Rabbi and Mrs. Eugene Mannheimer.

Portrait bust of the United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson and later founder of the Meredith Corporation and editor and publisher of "Successful Farming" magazine. Plaster cast to bronze by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Model for commission for Mishawaka, Indiana, Centennial.

One of two small-scale figure sketches which were models for commission for Mishawaka, Indiana, Centennial.

Portrait bust or bas relief

Portrait bust of academic head of Department of Botany, Iowa State College and motivator of the State Park system. Funds for the bronze casting of the original plaster were raised by the department.

Bust of Notre Dame football coach. Article notes that the plaster sculpture was "incomplete at time of death" for Rockne.

Portrait bust of Director of Public Library of Des Moines, 1918–1920 and 1928–1951. Spaulding wrote the Des Moines Library Bill of Rights in 1938, adopted by the American Library Association in 1939. Cast in bronze by a Chicago firm.

Portrait bust. Adams was Petersen’s colleague on Public Works of Art Project at Iowa City.

Portrait bust commissioned by the Des Moines City Railway Company.

Created on Public Works of Art Project in Iowa City, a preliminary model for a proposed bridgehead sculpture that was never commissioned. It depicts four buffalo running.

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…

Family group with father, mother holding toddler, and young son.

Portrait bust of Petersen’s friend, from the University of Iowa art department, Iowa City, Iowa, and one of the artists for the Iowa State College Library murals in 1934.

Portrait bust of Petersen’s Iowa City friend who worked on Grant Wood’s Public Works of Art murals for the Iowa State College Library. Painted green.

Portrait bust of State Secretary of Agriculture and Gardner Cowles’ grandson. Modeled at the Iowa State Fair, 1939.

Portrait bust of Bukh, director of Ollerup Gymnasium College, Ollerup, Denmark.

Portrait bust of Neale S. Knowles, head of Home Economics Extension from 1909-1933 at Iowa State College. Portrait created at the Art Salon of the Iowa State Fair, 1937.

McCray was a faculty member of the University of Iowa Art Department and a friend of Petersen. This sculpture depicts his head only.

Portrait bust of academic chairman of Department of Dairy Industry.

Medical doctor in a winter coat and hat carrying medical bag. Possibly commissioned by Successful Farming.

Portrait bust of Petersen’s friend, Cunningham (1879–1948), a research professor at the Iowa Corn Institute, and amateur poet who inspired several of Petersen’s campus sculptures.

Doctor holding an injured or ill puppy, with mother dog sitting at the veterinarian’s feet and leaning against his knee.

Doctor holding an injured or ill puppy, with mother dog sitting at the veterinarian’s feet and leaning against his knee.

Doctor holding an injured or ill puppy, with mother dog sitting at the veterinarian’s feet and leaning against his knee.

Busts of six children in one bas relief. Children of Dr. A.I. Haugen.

Portrait bust of Philip Leyendecker, a leader and former dean of New Mexico State University. Invested more than 30 years in improving NMSU and New Mexico agriculture. He is the namesake of the NMSU Leyendecker Plant Science Center and the annual Leyendecker…

Mask of a young, beardless Lincoln. Reproductions were cast by Pegasus Productions in 1986.

Portrait bust of Mott (1886-1964), Dean of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism from 1942-1951. Mott coined the term "photojournalism".

Two reclining nude figures on either side of a small fountain. Fountain and pool were removed for conservation from Roberts Hall in 1998 and installed in the Anderson Sculpture Garden in 2015.

Sculpture created for Dr. and Mrs. Charles Ryan, friends of the Petersens, after Dr. Ryan operated on the artist’s wife Charlotte for a toxic goiter. Dr. Ryan practiced surgery in Des Moines until his death in 1942.

Three bas reliefs of athletes: football player carrying ball; male basketball player poised shooting free throw, and a man sprinting. Each panel is composed of five horizontal panel sections. The original building was called the Men’s Gymnasium.

Petersen used Charlotte and newborn daughter Mary as models for the sculpture.

The model (great-aunt of Neva Hamann) was cousin to Bessie Coon, author of Cha-Ki-Shi. Shows an elderly woman with hair in bun at back of neck.

Waist view of Dean Charles H. Stange, Veterinary College, Iowa State College. He holds his hand in front of him with a scroll in his left hand.

Portrait bust of Dr. Friley, president of Iowa State College, 1936 to 1953.

Doctor holding an injured or ill puppy, with mother dog sitting at the veterinarian’s feet and leaning against his knee. The sculpture is widely accepted as the international symbol of veterinary medicine.

Woman in a dance pose, dressed in an off-the-shoulder Grecian gown.

Woman in a dance pose, dressed in an off-the-shoulder Grecian gown.

Rough clay sketch of bust of woman in cloak cradling child.

Small model for a proposed memorial to McGuffey, whose McGuffey Readers were written for school children in the late 19th century.

Christian Petersen’s wife seated on a rock formation with hands around knees. She wears a hat and coat with fur collar.

Seated nude woman holding child.

Portrait bust of director of Home Economics Extension, Iowa State College.

Portrait bust of dean, Home Economics College, Iowa State College.

Woman standing holding a small child in her arms while looking back over her left shoulder. Created after experiencing a 1936 flood on the Mississippi River.

Two bust sketches of a man and woman Petersen met in Kentucky, both of whom were sharecroppers, and one of whom was a former slave.

Bust portrait or bas relief, dean, College of Engineering, Iowa State College

Life size figure of a pregnant pioneer woman.

Small maquette of preparatory work to be carved in Bedford limestone.

Image of mother and child are drawn on limestone in anticipation of being sculpted.

Spoof on sculpture by Hugo Robus.

Portrait bust of the patriarch of the Munn family of Ames, Iowa.

A spoof of a draft horse getting a pair of wings. Three limited edition bronzes of this sculpture were created and offered in 1984 on behalf of Charlotte Petersen by Pegasus Productions, the first of which was purchased by the Veterinary College, ISU.

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.

Casting from bust portrait. George Harrison Shull (1874 – 1954) was an eminent American plant geneticist. Shull played an important role in the development of hybrid maize which had great impact upon global agriculture. This sculpture was created during a three day visit…

Model of a children’s fountain which depicts children in bas relief playing and dancing around the periphery of the fountain. The drinking fountain was proposed for Brookside Park in Ames, Iowa.

Portrait bust of dean, Veterinary Medicine College, Iowa State College.

Whimsical study, based on Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

Son of Iowa State College music professor, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Schroeder. Plaster is of young boy holding a stuffed dog.

Petersen saw children on a mule after the 1938 flood in Kentucky. A bronze casting of this piece was created after Petersen’s death.

One sculpture depicts Mary Petersen, the artist’s daughter, holding her rag doll in dejection and the other depicts her playmate–a neighborhood boy–holding his new puppy after bragging about it and telling her, You can’t play with it. Five plaster castings were sold at…

Figures of mother and two small children, believed to be from Appalachia.

Portrait bust of Fredrick W. Beckman, founder of Iowa State College Press in 1934 and head of the Department of Technical Journalism, 1911–1927. Presented to Iowa State College by Journalism alumni October 18, 1952.

Portrait bust of friend before she moved to California. Beemer would go on to connect Petersen to the Laguna Beach Art Association.

Demonstration sketch, probably done at the Iowa State Fair.

Portrait bust of dean, College of Agriculture, Iowa State College.

Portrait bust of Successful Farming editor.

Portrait bust of professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State College created before a 1950 meeting of the Landscape Architecture Club.

Portrait bust of an artist and friend of Petersen.

Portrait bust of dean, College of Agriculture, Iowa State College.

Portrait bust, sculpted at the Iowa State Fair. Anna Bell Lawther (1872 - 1957) was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. state of Iowa.

Rough sketch of standing woman holding a child in one arm.

Portrait bust of national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic who lived in Slater, Iowa. Portrait created at the Art Salon of the Iowa State Fair. Presented to Nelson in Sept. 1936.

Portrait bust of Ames attorney and Kiwanis president, sculpted as demonstration for Kiwanis Club in Feb. 1935.

Half-figure sculpture of nude mother figure holding nude child close to her chest, both wearing expressions of horror. Inspired by World War II bombings in Europe.

Portrait bust of Wilson (1884–1953) Governor of Iowa 1939–1943.

Portrait bust of sculptor of Mount Rushmore; Borglum is possibly known to Petersen from Petersen’s early career in New York.

Hair is pulled back into two buns worn in the middle/back of her head.

Figure portraying a young pioneer mother carrying a small child in her arms.

Aged female with her hands placed together in prayer and eyes looking upward.

Portrait of Converse, Department of Journalism, 1919–1939. Dedicated October 1941 in the Department of Technical Journalism, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.

The model, Marion Link of Nevada, won second in the National Cornhusking Championship in 1940 and first place in the Iowa championship in 1941. Commissioned along with 4-H Calf by the Hotel Sheldon-Munn, Ames, IA.

Figure of boy with calf. Commissioned along with Cornhusker by the Hotel Sheldon-Munn, Ames, IA.

Original plaster models for Fountain of the Four Seasons figures.

Portrait bust of the Danish editor of Julegranen Magazine.

Portrait bust of Mildred Catherine Meader Finegan, sculpted at a Faculty Women’s Club meeting at Iowa State, January 1942. Her husband, Jack, was head of the department and professor of Religious Education. The model was a close friend of the artist’s wife Charlotte.

Model for sculpture and fountain.

Three toddlers, approximately life-size, sitting at the edge of a pool. Designed for grounds of College of Home Economics, MacKay Hall. Figures moved indoors inside MacKay Hall after being conserved in 1991. 1994 outdoor reproduction of reinforced concrete by Mayda Jensen,…

Crouching World War II soldier beside fallen World War I doughboy. Proposed war memorial honoring service men from World Wars I and II.

Portrait bust of Benet (1898–1943), a writer best known for his Civil War narrative poem John Brown’s Body (1928). Benet had visited Iowa State College in fall 1937, and Petersen created both sketches and two busts after his death.

Portrait bust of Department of Journalism faculty member (1939-1944) who did publicity for Petersen including "Christian Petersen Album", 1943.

Portrait of the academic head of Agriculture Journalism from 1908–1911, for the Department of Technical Journalism. Created at the Iowa State Fair, 1942.

Seated boy and girl mounted on low pedestals on each side of the stairway leading to the second floor, the figures represent two college students admiring each other.

Boy and girl figures sit on tiered pedestal.

A concept for Library Boy. Figure sits on an anvil, with a wheel to his left and tools to the right. The boy and objects are on a two-tiered, curved pedestal.

A concept for Library Girl. Seated female student glancing to her left with a book on her lap.

Study of fallen soldier. A man grasping a wounded soldier under the arms and holding him upright.

World War II soldier slumps toward ground as he is hit by a bullet.

Four kneeling figures of Native American women equally spaced around a fountain ring. The ring design is sprouting corn. Dedicated at VEISHEA May 1941.

Statue of draped figure strapped to a vertical slab, with his back to the viewer. Proposal for international competition on the theme of "Unknown Political Prisoner".

Figure of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.

This model shows the central sculpture grouping depicting a male and a female student. Listed as damaged in 1964 sale record.

Portrait bust of Dr. Martin Fritz, head of Department of Psychology at Iowa State from 1927–1972.

Preliminary model of Saint Cecilia seated with children at the end of a pool. Pool was later removed by owner. Saint Cecilia was replaced with the Virgin Mary in the final version.

Model for terra cotta Madonna of the Schools at Saint Cecilia School in Ames, Iowa.

Full-length figure of Madonna holding the infant Christ. She stands on a tiered base with a wall. Two boys wearing contemporary clothing are on the left, and a girl kneels on the right. The children are looking at Mary. Installed in the summer of 1947.

Romualdo Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno (1859 – 1945) served as president of Costa Rica on three separate occasions: 1910 to 1914, 1924 to 1928, and 1932 to 1936.

Portrait bust. Andrea’s father was in the Ceramics Department.

Portrait bust. The model was a student in art appreciation at Iowa State College class during a Petersen sculpture demonstration, and later an architect for the Agronomy Building at Iowa State who invited Petersen to create the relief sculpture for the main entrance in 1951.

Combined busts of two sons, Hans Hall and Neil Woods Goeppinger, at ages 8 and 3. They were created in thirteen sittings arranged by Joanne M. Hansen, former academic head of the Iowa State College Art Department.

Bust study done in preparation for Goeppinger Children.

Bust study done in preparation for Goeppinger Children.

Sculpture of Pope who was canonized and known as the Children’s Pope. Created as gift for Saint Cecilia Church, Ames, Iowa.

Figure study of Dr. Carver holding peanut plant, for which he discovered over one hundred industrial processing projects. Carver received a bachelor of science degree from Iowa State College in 1894 and a master’s degree in 1896.

Figure of Christ in crown and robes. The commission was arranged by the architect who designed the Saint Regis High School building project and was a former student of Petersen.

Figure sculpture of the Risen Christ with extended hands.

Young female with short hair; slate base.

A bookend made as a Christmas gift for Mary Petersen, who wrote that the other bookend was destroyed in the firing process.

Portrait bust of the son of Louise and Harry Beckemeyer at 18 months.

Portrait bust of the son of Louise and Harry Beckemeyer at 18 months.

Three casts of this figure were originally made. Additional reproductions of the cast were produced and sold at Saint Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center in Ames, Iowa in 1960.

Archbishop Rohlman officiated at Petersen’s confirmation ceremonies in Dubuque, Iowa in 1949. A gift to Archbishop Rohlman for his personal chapel.

Portrait bust.

Young girl with long hair.

Portrait bust done as demonstration for Rotary Club or Kiwanis.

Portrait bust of Abraham Lincoln, roughly chiseled.

Two sculptures, one of Mary and Jesus and another of Joseph.

Standing, robed saint, striding forward with right hand pointing to left.

Preliminary model depicting St. Bernard standing in a hooded robe, holding a crosier. Listed as damaged in 1964 sale record.

Robed figure holding a staff. Preliminary model for large bronze formerly in Dubuque, now in Breda, Iowa. In the bronze sculpture, St. Bernard carries a book and not a staff.

A model for the sculpture for the Parish of Saint Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa.

Monumental figure of Saint Francis Xavier. The base includes three terra cotta bas reliefs. Dedicated in 1951 at the Saint Francis Xavier Elementary School in Dyersville, Iowa.

Figure study for Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in Breda, Iowa.

Bust portrait. His head is shaved with a fringe of hair around his head.

Portrait bust.

Busts.

Plaster copy of Saint Cecilia Church’s Mary and Jesus in terra cotta.

Three groups of students along brick wall: three females, a male and female, and a single female reading.

A unfired clay bust of a student made as a demonstration at a meeting of the American Institute of Architects, and given to him by Petersen. An posthumous plaster casting was made at a later date.

Nude woman, sitting on a rock, washing her hair.

Model for cowboy was Dr. John J. Edenburn, DVM.

Figure purchased for the seminary with funds from Catholic school children of Dubuque Diocese. Commissioned and dedicated in original location in 1954. When the seminary closed, the sculpture was restored and relocated in 1997 to Saint Bernard’s Catholic Church in Breda,…

Portrait bust of former director of WOI-TV, Iowa State College and of Director of Telecommunications at the Ohio State University.

Seated woman in profile with legs bent upward at knees. On her knees she holds a small child.

Portrait bust of Amos Barton Emery (1895-1973) Petersen’s friend whom he knew beginning in 1933. Emery was an architect in Des Moines, Iowa.

Portrait bust of Marshalltown, Iowa, child.

Portrait bust of daughter of J.W. and Dorothy Fisher.

Portrait bust of son of J.W. and Dorothy Fisher at age fifteen.

Reclining female nude figure, also possibly known as Siesta.

Portrait bust.

Portrait bust commissioned by Fisher family, Marshalltown, IA.

Portrait bust of Dean Helen Benitez, Women’s University, The Philippines. Created in April 1946.

Son of Joan Lange Kaas.

Made as a demonstration at the Newman Catholic Student Center in Saint Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center in Ames, Iowa.

Carved image of Christ being crucified on the cross.

Plaster model eventually cast by Roman Bronze Works, Chicago, IL.

Nude man holds nude male child in his upraised hands. Sculpture sits on a rectangular base in a pond. Petersen’s final sculpture, modeled and signed by the artist, but cast after his death. Cast by Roman Bronze Works, Chicago, IL. Orlandi Statuary Co., Chicago, IL.

Plaster mold of sculpture of director of extension at Iowa State College.

Kneeling robed, male figure supporting a reclining figure of Christ.

Sculpture of the daughter of a family from Marshalltown.

Molds

Portrait bust of Des Moines Register editorial cartoonist.

Block-style carved image of a young lady’s face.

Young woman in a long gown holding an object in her hand.

Clay study of mother grasping two children.

Portrait bust. Robertson was active in the arts in Ames. This sculpture was begun as a demonstration to the Ames Women’s Club, and shown at several meetings to illustrate the sculpture process.

Seated Madonna with young Jesus standing near her, both reading a book.

Cloaked woman with hands crossed over her chest.

Plaster bust of woman with curly hair.

Fountain and reflecting pool. Cast by T.F. McGann & Sons, Boston, MA.

This portrait bust was a gift of Christian Petersen to the students of William McKinley School in Cedar Rapids. It was removed for an posthumous bronze casting that is located at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The original portrait bust was likely destroyed during the…

Life-size bust portraits of the sons of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Ryan.

Bust of the Petersen’s’ friend and neighbor.

Special Collections in the Iowa State University Library, ISU, has a photograph of this approximately life-size nativity scene that was erected on campus at Christmas. It included a kneeling Mary, standing Joseph, an infant Jesus in a wooden manger, and relief murals of…

Cast of nude man standing and holding a nude male child in his upraised hands.

Three casts of this figure were originally made in 1950 for Archbishop Rohlman of Dubuque, Iowa. Copies were produced and sold at Saint Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center in Ames, Iowa in 1960.

One piece depicts Mary Petersen, the artist’s daughter, holding her rag doll in dejection and the other depicts her playmate–a neighborhood boy–holding his new puppy after bragging about it and telling her, You can’t play with it. Five plaster castings sold at the 1964…

Cast reproduction of the original. Cast by Paul Shao.

From 1960 until 1980, the Iowa State Veterinary College sold 18-inch plaster castings of "The Gentle Doctor" as a fundraiser for the Christian Petersen Scholarship Fund, with royalties to Charlotte Petersen for every piece purchased. Her husband had created the piece for his…

Three casts made of a 1938 Petersen spoof of a draft horse getting a pair of wings. Casting done by George-Ann Neudeck Tognoni, a student of Christian Petersen’s in the 1940s. The reproductions were produced by Pegasus Productions, through royalty arrangements with…

Fifteen bronzes of a 1936 original cast of the Mask of Abraham Lincoln done in 1986 by Pegasus Productions with royalties to Charlotte Petersen. Ten of them given to the Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, in 1986 for an annual volunteer of the year award...

Thirty-six pairs of castings of the originals were done by Pegasus Productions in 1986, by royalty arrangement with Charlotte and Mary Petersen.

Forty-two reproductions of the 1943 original were made by Foster Willey of Minneapolis, Minnesota. One was purchased for the Brunnier Art Museum, one for University Museums education program, and forty were presented as gifts to donors, Family and Consumer Sciences…

Concrete reproduction of children from the 1942 original. Concrete pigmented to terra cotta color. Casting commissioned by University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Casting done by Mayda Jensen Conservation, Omaha, Nebraska.

This bronze sculpture was cast by J.A.M. Studio from the original plaster sculpture created by Christian Petersen in 1942. The sculpture is a full length figure of Carver who holds a peanut in his raised left hand. Three castings were made.

Portrait of patriarch of the Draper family member. Born in 1852, Attleboro, MA, Draper was a jeweler.

Designed for Roll of Honor for World War I monument in Attleboro, MA. Eagle with plates. Commissioned by Tilden-Thurber, cast by Gorham Bronze Works, April 10, 1918.

Seated figure of nude mother with young son standing beside her.

Rough clay blocking study of mother and child.

Portrait bust of granddaughter of August Bang. Created when the child was 11 years old.

St. Bernard holding staff in left hand.

Gift from the artist to Earl Hansen, ca. 1942-43, for his wife Frances Kallus Hansen on the occasion of their marriage. Frances was a student of Petersen’s.

Posthumous bronze cast from 1934 original. Petersen sculpted the 1934 original plaster in Iowa City while working on the Public Works of Art Project. When the bronze was cast in 1968, the plaster original was destroyed in the casting process. Bronze bust and pedestal…

Bronze cast from ca. 1938 plaster original. Cast by JAM Studio, Blaine, MN. Model of a children’s fountain which depicts children in bas relief playing and dancing around the periphery of the fountain. The drinking fountain was proposed for Brookside Park in Ames, Iowa.

Bronze cast from ca. 1938 plaster original. Cast by JAM Studio, Blaine, MN. Model of a children’s fountain which depicts children in bas relief playing and dancing around the periphery of the fountain. The drinking fountain was proposed for Brookside Park in Ames, Iowa.

Bronze cast from 1941 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1936 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1941 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1933 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1942 original painted plaster. Cast by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1944 original painted plaster. Cast by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

This bronze sculpture was pointed up and cast by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York from the original plaster sculpture created by Christian Petersen in 1942. The sculpture is a full length figure of Carver who holds a peanut in his raised left hand.

Bronze cast from 1944 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Bronze cast from 1944 original painted plaster. Casts by Polich Art Works, Rock Tavern, New York.

Cast by Gorham Co., Bronze Division, Aug, 15, 1918. Possibly associated with R. Blackinton & Company, Attleboro, MA. Possibly Sumner Blackinton of Attleboro, MA.

Standing figure or a US Airman in uniform. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Portrait Bust of the 8th president of Iowa State University through 1936.

Bust portrait of 26th U.S. President.

Portrait bust of Gulick (1865-1918), father of physical education and recreation in the United States, formerly the director of Physical Training for the New York City Public Schools.

Portrait bust. Cast by Bronze, Inc. of Chicago, IL.

Bust portrait. Ole E. Rølvaag (1876-1931), novelist, educator, St. Olaf graduate, and father of Karl Rølvaag, Governor of Minnesota. A Norwegian immigrant, Rølvaag is best know for two novels, I de dage (1924) and Riket gundlæges (1925). These two works, the story of…

Portrait bust with shoulders and chest. Coat, vest, shirt and tie.

Portrait bust commissioned by Fisher family, Marshalltown, IA.

Statue of two bear cubs standing erect near log. For Chas. M. Robbins Co., Attleboro, MA. This relates to the Yellowstone spoon design.

Bust depicts Lincoln from the collar bone upward facing forward with a very similar profile to the Seated Lincoln style.

Bust depicts Lincoln facing forward with a very similar profile to the Seated Lincoln style.

A preparatory design for the larger scale sculpture. The model, Marion Link of Nevada, won second in the National Cornhusking Championship in 1940 and first place in the Iowa championship in 1941.

Bust of young boy from waist up.

Petersen saw children on a mule after the 1938 flood in Kentucky. A posthumous bronze casting of this piece was created in 1969 after Petersen’s death. This mold is from that casting process.

Sculpture.

Bust modeled during a Lion’s Club meeting in Ames, Iowa as part of the Ames Art Fair, a National Art Week celebration.

Petersen is the featured speaker at the Rockford Art Association, Rockford, IL where modeled the head of a member from the audience.

Helen Filkey (DeVry) (1908-2000), who became one of America’s finest track stars in the 1920s, modeled for this bust created in Petersen’s Chicago studio. She was Chicago’s first great female track and field champion, setting national and world records from when she first…

Sculpture is a hulking monster of war having beaten down a peasant. War has sized the peasant’s wife by the throat. She peasant pleads for mercy on her knees back arched in suffering.

Massive head of Lincoln.

Portrait bust. Portrait created at the Art Salon of the Iowa State Fair.

Portrait bust of "Des Moines Register" editor. Portrait created at the Art Salon of the Iowa State Fair, 1937.

Bust of President of the University of Kentucky.

Portrait bust of academic head of Department of Botany, Iowa State College.

One of Petersen’s plaster sculptures, "The Mother: A Wartime Conception", was featured on the June 5, 1915 cover of "The Survey" an American magazine on social and political issues published in New York in the early and mid 20th century.

Bust that is utilized as the model for the Woodrow Wilson medallion

Sculpture demonstration of 4-H participant at State Convention held in Ames.

Portrait bust created of the Pulitzer Prize winner before the Author’s Club Dinner, Iowa State Fair, 1939.

1.5 inch to 1 foot scale model for "Conversations", three groupings of students with brick wall in between. Appears broken in half in 1961 studio images.

Sculpted head as part of a demonstration for the Clio Club of Carroll, Iowa during a presentation in November 1951.

Schroeder was the campus carillonneur. Created during an appearance on WOI-TV.

Scared cat with separate mouse. May be related to cat drawings CPC #906 and "Cat" sculpture CPC #406, also known as "Fancy".

Nude woman kneeling with arms crossed across her chest, rectangle base.

Horse with head bent, rider with head bent on rough base. Similar to "End of the Trail" by James Earl Frasier.

Bust of Navy admiral from shoulders up wearing a military cap.

Cloaked woman with hands crossed over her chest. Intended to honor veterans of all wars. An inscription on the base would read "Let the Voice of Silence Speak for Those Loved Ones Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice for God and Country." Proposal to the Ames Patriotic Council…

State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Modeled at the Iowa State Fair, 1939.

Modeled at an Ames Women’s Club meeting, Nov. 1936.

Cub standing erect on a stump. Copyrighted June 29, 1912 for Chas. M. Robbins Co., Attleboro, MA.

Bust sculpted at a Crawford School PTA meeting.

Bust sculpted of hostess of AA group of the PEO during a meeting in Ames on Jan. 6, 1953.

Bust sculpted at a meeting of the Business and Professionals Womens Club, Ames, Iowa, on Nov. 11, 1940.

Portrait bust of unknown man, painted white.

Lecture by Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong held at the Christian Petersen Art Museum, September 2009.

Portrait bust of Ames, Iowa native.