Lee Lawrie
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1877 – 1963
Who was Lee Lawrie?
Lee Oscar Lawrie was one of the United States' foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II. Over his long career of more than 300 commissions Lawrie's style evolved through Modern Gothic, to Beaux-Arts Classicism and finally into Moderne or Art Deco. His work includes the details on the Nebraska State Capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska and some of the architectural sculpture and his most prominent work, the free-standing bronze Atlas at New York City's Rockefeller Center.
Lawrie's work is associated with some of America's most noted buildings of the first half of the twentieth century. His stylistic approach evolved with building styles that ranged from Beaux-Arts to neo-Gothic to Art Deco. Many of his architectural sculptures were completed for buildings by Bertram Goodhue of Cram & Goodhue, including the chapel at West Point; the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.; the Nebraska State Capitol; the Los Angeles Public Library; St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York; and Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. He completed numerous pieces in Washington, D.C., including the bronze doors of the John Adams Building of the Library of Congress, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception south entrance portal, and the interior sculpture of George Washington at the National Cathedral.
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- Born
- Oct 16, 1877
Neukölln - Also known as
- Lee Oscar Lawrie
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Chicago
(1881 - 1895) - New York City
(1900 - 1940)
- Chicago
- Died
- Jan 23, 1963
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on July 23, 2013
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