The archive
The works
A growing visual catalogue of civic, sacred, memorial and landmark sculpture.
LandmarkThe Rockefeller Center
Atlas and the surrounding Art Deco programme remain among Lawrie’s most recognized works.
CivicThe John Adams Building of the Library of Congress
Owls, acanthus ornament and richly detailed Art Deco interiors created for the Library of Congress.
CivicLouisiana State Capitol
The tower and entrance programme in Baton Rouge, where Lawrie’s sculptural language gives public architecture a ceremonial scale.
CivicNebraska State Capitol
Lee Lawrie’s largest commission: a vast sculptural programme integrated into Bertram Goodhue’s Nebraska State Capitol.
CivicCivilization and the Sphinxes
The monumental entrance sculpture at Los Angeles Central Library, a defining collaboration of art, architecture and learning.
CivicCivilization’s Great Thinkers
A sequence of figures that places intellectual history directly on the face of a public building.
CivicArt Deco Elevator Doors
Decorative bronze doors from the Pennsylvania Education Building, showing Lawrie’s attention to every architectural scale.
CivicPennsylvania Education Building
A Harrisburg civic building whose doors, grates and architectural details reveal Lawrie’s range in bronze ornament.
CivicPennsylvania’s Natural Resources
A stitched panorama of the sculpture behind the Commonwealth’s Finance Building in Harrisburg.
CivicNational Academy of Sciences
Exterior figures and interior details made for Bertram Goodhue’s Washington landmark.
CivicLos Angeles Central Public Library
A rich visual programme for one of Los Angeles’s most distinctive public buildings.
CivicLos Angeles Public Library: Exterior Elements & Details
Exterior elements and architectural details at the Los Angeles Public Library.
CivicDeborah Cook Sayles Public Library
An early sculptural programme for Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson’s Pawtucket library.
CivicThe Ages of Man
Childhood, youth, maturity and old age, conceived with Hartley Burr Alexander for Nebraska’s Great Hall.
CommercialBank of Hawaii, Honolulu
Canoe builders and seiners created for Honolulu, and the complicated history of their commission.
MemorialKansas City War Memorial Competition
A period rendering of Bertram G. Goodhue’s competitive design for the Kansas City War Memorial.
MemorialGettysburg Civil War Memorials
The Pennsylvania State Monument at Gettysburg, with General Meade and General Reynolds by Lee Lawrie.
MemorialEternal Light Peace Memorial
Gettysburg’s 1938 peace memorial, dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
MemorialFirst Baptist Church War Memorial, Pittsburgh
A church memorial that carries the emotional weight of the Great War into an intimate architectural setting.
MemorialPasadena World War I Memorial
A California memorial programme by an artist deeply affected by the war.
MemorialSt. Thomas World War I Memorial
Vivid memorial sculpture at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan.
MemorialWWII Brittany American Cemetery
A World War II cemetery and memorial in the rolling farm country of Brittany, France.
SacredSt. Thomas Episcopal, Fifth Avenue
Sculpture for one of New York’s major Gothic-revival churches.
SacredChurch of the Heavenly Rest
Architectural sculpture shaped for worship, reflection and ceremonial procession.
SacredBenson Memorial Doorway
Benson Memorial Doorway, Brooklyn, NY.
SacredGeorge Washington as a Churchman
A 1947 statue by Lee Lawrie presented to Washington Cathedral.
SacredBasilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
A late religious commission by Lee Lawrie for the Sacred Heart entrance in Washington, D.C.
SacredSantiago Apóstol
A powerful figure of Saint James, patron saint of Spain.
LandmarkThe Seers of Knowledge
The figures on the Los Angeles Public Library Tower rise over the city as an extraordinary lesson in sculptural storytelling.
LandmarkThe Legendary Scribes of History
Bronze doors and glass panels at the Library of Congress John Adams Building trace the history of the written word.
LandmarkSterling Memorial Library at Yale
A university library where Lawrie’s sculpture becomes part of the institution’s daily intellectual life.
LandmarkRhode Island School of Design
Bas-relief panels that bring Lawrie’s allegorical precision to Providence.
CommercialFidelity Mutual Life Building
The former Philadelphia building now known as the Perelman Building.
LandmarkDime Savings Bank, Brooklyn
“Morning and Evening” and the refined sculptural vocabulary of early twentieth-century New York.
LandmarkThe 1933 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition
Lawrie’s work at a defining American exposition.
LandmarkLouisiana Purchase Exposition
Lawrie’s early South Dakota figure for the Colonnade of States at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
ArchiveFather McIncrow Memorial Statue, 1897
Lee Lawrie’s early life-sized bronze memorial to Father James P. McIncrow in Amsterdam, New York.
Archive600 California
Architectural panels by Lee Lawrie, originally made for Pennsylvania’s Education Building and later installed in San Francisco.
ArchiveWater and Light
A Lawrie relief beside Washington’s Municipal Police Station, with its earlier setting preserved in an antique postcard.
ArchiveThe Torch of Knowledge
The Light of Learning, framed here as a monumental public symbol.
ArchiveLawrie’s Eagles
A survey of eagles created for civic, educational and memorial settings.
ArchiveTomb of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
A memorial to Lawrie’s long-time architectural collaborator at the Church of the Intercession in New York.
ArchiveHarkness Mausoleum
A major funerary commission at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
ArchiveAndrew Dixon White Sarcophagus
A Cornell memorial of lasting symbolic force.
ArchiveIsidor and Ida Straus Cenotaph
A memorial at Woodlawn Cemetery carrying a deeply personal American story.
ArchiveThe World Is My Book
The sculpted lintel above the Children’s Court at the Los Angeles Public Library.
ArchiveLAPL Children’s Court
A detailed gallery of the mythological and storybook programme at the Los Angeles Public Library.
ArchivePrinters’ Tunnel at LAPL
An architectural passage within the Los Angeles Public Library’s sculptural programme.
ArchiveParade of Scientists
Figures from the history of science on the National Academy of Sciences Building.
ArchiveNational Academy of Sciences Building, Interior
Fireplaces, locks, lamps, gates and sculpture made integral to the building itself.
ArchiveDoor Grates for the Education Building
Bronze door grates made for Harrisburg’s former Education Building.
ExtinctionsCaltech
The lost sculptural programme of Throop Hall, its reflecting pool and the High Volts building at the California Institute of Technology.
ExtinctionsWichita
The 1935 Wichita Art Museum and the original architectural setting of its sculptural programme.