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This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: November 2003

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

Photographs: Throughout

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Biographical Note

Peter David Edstrom was born on March 27, 1873 in Hvetlanda, Sweden. He came to the United States with his parents in 1880. He studied sculpture with Johannes Scheiwe in Ottumwa, Iowa. He returned to Sweden to study at the Royal Academy. He settled in Los Angeles thereafter and worked mostly on portrait commissions. He died on August 12, 1938.

Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of a few catalogues of Edstrom's exhibits, clippings, and some correspondence. Most notable are 8x10 photos of some of his sculptures.

Inventory

Artistic reproductions of artwork

Catalogs of exhibitions

Patterson Gallery, Old Bond Street, London, April 25 -- May 24 (no year). Includes a photograph of his sculpture The Sphinx

Clippings

Correspondence

Photographs of Edstrom's sculpture

Publications

"Man Triumphant." (A "revision and concentration of two lectures delivered at the National University of Sweden at Upsale")

Unveiling ceremonies of the M. H. Whittier Memorial Statue, March 11, 1929, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA. Program. Includes a photograph of the statue