Sherry Peticolas

[3] In 1934 Peticolas was one of three collaborators, along with Henry Lion and Jason Herron, who created a Public Works of Art piece in cast concrete called Water Power, for Lafayette Park.

[6] His best-known work, the colossal statue of Juan Bautista de Anza at Newman Park in Riverside, was installed in 1940.

Peticolas was married second to the ceramicist Gwynne Hill (born Mary Edna Hutchinson).

[16] Peticolas died of peritonitis[17] while was Gwynne was overseas in Japan adopting a little boy who had been fathered by an American GI after World War II.

[1] Some biographies of Peticolas, including in Edan Milton Hughes' Artists in California, 1786–1940, have mistakenly described him using she/her pronouns.