Lee Lawrie - Other Commissions

Other Commissions

Other Lawrie commissions include:

• Allegorical relief panels called Courage, Patriotism and Wisdom over the entry doors to United States Senate chamber (done as part of the 1950 Federal-period remodeling of the Senate), Washington, D.C.
• Education Building (a.k.a. Forum Building) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Peace Memorial at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Fidelity Mutual Life Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (now part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the sculptural elements of which include the owl of wisdom, the dog of fidelity, the pelican of charity, the possum of protection, and the squirrel of frugality), architects Zantzinger, Borie and Medary
• Statue of George Washington, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
• Friezes for the Ramsey County Courthouse in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Two Egyptian bas-reliefs for the 1924 Hale Solar Laboratory in Pasadena, California
• National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the bronze doors of the John Adams Building at the Library of Congress Annex, both in Washington, D.C.
• Harkness Memorial Tower at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan
• Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• the Bok Singing Tower in Mountain Lake, Florida, architects Zantzinger, Borie and Medary
• Designed sculptures for the Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in Brittany, France executed by Jean Juge of Paris and the French sculptor, Augustine Beggi.
• Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial gravestone.