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Object NamePortrait Sculpture

Artist / Maker Christian Petersen (Danish - American, 1885 - 1961)

Date1938

OriginUSA

MediumPainted Plaster

Dimensions11" x 8" x 9" (27.9 x 20.3 x 22.9)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Joy Munn. Conservation funded by Ruth and Clayton Swenson. In the Christian Petersen Art Collection, Christian Petersen Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Object numberUM99.300

Status

Not on view

Collections

Label TextBust sketch of a man Petersen met in Kentucky, a sharecroppers and a former slave.

Locations

(not entered) Iowa State University, Christian Petersen Art Museum

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Frances McCray, Head of University of Iowa Art Department

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Colonel W. F. Godson, Fort Des Moines

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Object Name: Portrait Bust

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Object number: UM89.28

Object Name: Sculpture

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Christian Petersen

1949

Object number: UM88.73

Object Name: Sculpture, cast

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Object number: UM2007.15

Object Name: Sculpture, portrait bust

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Object number: UM2006.137

Object Name: Bas Relief Sculpture, portrait

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Object number: UM2008.548

Object Name: Portrait Plaque

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1950

Object number: U89.27

Object Name: Portrait Bust

Martin Mortensen, head, Department of Dairy Industry, 1909-1938

Christian Petersen

1935

Object number: U90.27

Object Name: Sculpture

Cornhusker

Christian Petersen

1941

Object number: UM99.329