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Gallery: Lee Lawrie's Architectural Sculpture

Lee Lawrie's Architectural Sculpture

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German-born, and raised in Chicago, Lee Lawrie represents the pinnacle of Art Deco sculpture. He created hundreds of works, both before and after Art Deco had run its short lived course. Here are images from some of his sites around the country where his exquisite work is found.

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  1. "A symbolic statue representing 'Civilization' placed in the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California. It is a unique, majestic figure, a piece of rater beauty combining the use of bronze and Italia Marble. The breastplate and the shoulder drapes are of antique bronze, the lower side drapes of the Marble. ...

  2. From the 1926 brocuhure describing this art work: GRAND AVENUE: CHILDREN'S DOOR: CARYATIDES, story-telling spririts of East and Wes: THE WORLD with Chinese Frigate and Yankee clipper ship on the horizon. Sea nymph Galatea and the sea god Proteus riding the waves.

  3. The Los Angeles Public Library was constructed in 1926, and designed by Betram Grosvenor Goodhue. The architectural sculpture on the building is by Lee Lawrie, who also created the Atlas and more at Rockefeller Center, and the myriad of sculpture at the Nebraska State Capitol. The Hope Street Entrance features the...

  4. Lee Lawrie's Phosphor and Hesper, plus The Torch Race, Los Angeles Public Library. These images are part of the exterior of the Los Angeles Public Library, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, featuring architectural sculpture by Lee Oskar Lawrie, (1877-1963). Based in New York, Lawrie created the models or maquett...

  5. Sculpture on the Los Angeles Public Library

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  6. The entire north side of the Nebraska State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska. Architect: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Architectural Sculptor: Lee Lawrie

  7. Horizontal panorama of the Nebraska State Capitol, featuring the sculpture of Lee Lawrie. I will add some snapshots showing his work. He diid the former Senate doors, featuring Native American icons, as well as the Onyx balconly railings, depicting Nebraska's State Bird, the Meadowlark, Bison Skulls and Corn. He als...

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  8. This pano was shot free-handed, so there are a couple of gaps, but you should be able to see details of the tower, including spandrels just below the observation deck featuring Pelicans, and slightly below them, Louisiana Wildlife, featuring Raccoons, Crayfish and Mink. The Entry Portal if framed by Lee Lawrie's Ar...

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  9. Wisdom Power, Justice and Mercy: Constant Guardians of the Law.

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  10. Stitched panorama of the North Portal of the Nebraska State Capitol Builidng in spherical display.

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