The archive
Landmarks & Discoveries
The public works, private details and fresh discoveries that extend the record.
LandmarkThe Rockefeller Center
Atlas and the surrounding Art Deco programme remain among Lawrie’s most recognized works.
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.
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.