page_title: Lee Lawrie
section_title: Commissions related to Goodhue
hierarchical_section_title: Lee Lawrie / Collaborations with Cram and Goodhue / Commissions related to Goodhue
caption_attribution_description: A close up at the sculpture at the entrance to the Rockefeller Chapel of U of Chicago
context_page_description: 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.
  He created a frieze on the Nebraska State Capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska, including a portrayal of the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. He also created 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 the United States' 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.
context_section_description: Marble reliefs above the windows of the Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1902 (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson)
  Chapel at West Point, West Point, New York (Cram and Goodhue)
  Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, New York City (Cram and Goodhue)
  Pulpit and Lectern and Apse carvings at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, (Cram and Goodhue)
  reredos at Saint Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City (Cram and Goodhue)
  reredos at St. John's Episcopal Church (West Hartford, Connecticut) (Goodhue)
  Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska (Goodhue)
  Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California (Goodhue)
  Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana (Goodhue)
  National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. (Goodhue)
  Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Goodhue)
  Christ Church Cranbrook, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Goodhue)
  Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City (Mayers Murray & Phillip)
caption: Lawrie's work at Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago, circa 1929
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