The archive
Civic Buildings
Sculpture that gives democracy, education and public life a physical language.
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.