page_title: Hartley Burr Alexander
section_title: Iconographer
hierarchical_section_title: Hartley Burr Alexander / Iconographer
caption_attribution_description: English: photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran aka Carptrash 00:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC) . Inscription by Hartley Burr Alexander on the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
context_page_description: Hartley Burr Alexander, PhD, was an American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer.
context_section_description: Burr is believed to have coined the term iconographer to describe the work that he did developing iconographic schemes, decorative themes and inscriptions for a large number and variety of public buildings in the United States. These include:
  Alexander family burial plot marker, Lee Lawrie, sculptor, c.1924, Syracuse, NE
  California Institute of Technology
  Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 1933
  Kansas City City Hall, Wight & Wight, architects, 1936, Kansas City, Missouri. In this commission each of the three sculptors involved, C. Paul Jennewein, Walker Hancock and Ulrik Ellerhusen were required to each pay Alexander $100 from their fee for his input
  Fidelity Mutual Insurance Building, Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, architects, Lee Lawrie, sculptor, 1926, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Goodhue Memorial Fountain
  Joslyn Art Museum, John and Alan McDonald, architects, 1931, Omaha Nebraska
  Justice Department Building, Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, architects, 1931-1934, Washington D.C.
  Los Angeles Public Library, Bertram G. Goodhue, architect, Lee Lawrie, sculptor, Los Angeles, California
  Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office Building, Ottawa, Canada
  Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  Nebraska State Capitol, Bertram G. Goodhue, architect, Lee Lawrie, sculptor, Lincoln Nebraska
  Oregon State Capitol, Salem, Oregon Leo Friedlander, sculptor
  Rockefeller Center, Lee Lawrie, Paul Manship, Rene Paul Chambellan et al., sculptors NYC
  Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, Paul Cret architect, Einar Jónsson, Heinz Warneke, John Flannagan, Jacques Lipchitz et al., sculptors, 1932 Philadelphia Pennsylvania
  State Finance Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  Title and Trust Building, Los Angeles, California
  University of Nebraska Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
caption: Inscription, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
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