Buffalo
Object NameSculpture
Artist / Maker
Christian Petersen
(Danish - American, 1885 - 1961)
Date1934
MediumPainted plaster
Dimensions6 1/8 × 12 × 5 1/4 in. (15.6 × 30.5 × 13.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Charlotte Petersen to Special Collections, Iowa State University Library. Transferred to University Museums. In the Christian Petersen Art Collection, Christian Petersen Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberUM99.53
Status
Not on viewCollections
CultureAmerican
Label TextCreated 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.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Christian Petersen Art Museum
Object Name: Sculpture, fountain and six bas relief panels
Christian Petersen
1934
Object number: U88.64a-g
Object Name: Sculpture
Christian Petersen
1953-54
Object number: UM2000.2
Object Name: Mural (three panels)
Grant Wood
1936-1937
Object number: U88.68abc
Object Name: Sculpture
Christian Petersen
1950-1951
Object number: UM2014.12ab
