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Photograph of Nebraska State Capitol. Lee Lawrie’s largest commission: a vast sculptural programme integrated into Bertram Goodhue’s Nebraska State Capitol.

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Nebraska State Capitol

Lee Lawrie’s largest commission: a vast sculptural programme integrated into Bertram Goodhue’s Nebraska State Capitol.

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Nebraska State Capitol

Lincoln, Nebraska

The Nebraska State Capitol is Lee Lawrie’s largest and most sustained architectural commission. Its sculpture forms a complete visual programme across the building, from exterior panels and animal figures to interior rooms and ceremonial spaces.

Hartley Burr Alexander and the Watchful CitizenThe Nebraska philosopher whose words gave the Capitol’s civic programme its clearest charge.PioneersA close view of the Pioneer Panel.The American BisonPrairie Deco animals carved as civic symbols at the Nebraska State Capitol.Column CapitalA carved capital that reflects the agricultural transformation of the Great Plains.The CounselorA relief figure in the Capitol’s Warner Chamber, within an interior rich in Native American-themed ornament.

Alexander’s History of Law, “The Majesty of the Law”

The Biblical Judgment of SolomonThe third installation in Alexander’s History of Law, “The Majesty of the Law.”The Emancipation ProclamationAn exterior relief in the Nebraska State Capitol’s History of Law programme.Wisdom, Justice, Power and Mercy: Constant Guardians of the LawAn archival programme sheet for the Capitol Pylon identifies the four constant guardians of the law.MinosThe legendary king of Crete, one of the Lawgivers at the Nebraska State Capitol.
Nebraska Public Media’s “Nebraska’s Capitol Masterpiece”
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