Editing Lee Lawrie (section)

==Commissions after Goodhue's death==
=== Rockefeller Center ===
[[Image:RocCt-LeeLawrie-Wisdom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|''Wisdom'', 30 Rockefeller Plaza]]
After Goodhue's death, Lawrie produced important and highly visible work under [[Raymond Hood]] at [[Rockefeller Center]] in New York City, which included the ''[[Atlas statue (New York City)|Atlas]]'' in collaboration with [[Rene Paul Chambellan]]. By November 1931 Hood said, "There has been entirely too much talk about the collaboration of architect, painter and sculptor." He relegated Lawrie to the role of a decorator.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.museumplanet.com/tour.php/nyc/rc/44 | title='Wisdom with Sound and Light' by Lee Lawrie | publisher=Museum Planet | access-date=November 25, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906053322/http://www.museumplanet.com/tour.php/nyc/rc/44 | archive-date=September 6, 2012 }}</ref>

Lawrie's most noted work is not architectural: it is the freestanding statue of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]], on Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center, standing a total 45 feet tall, with a 15-foot human figure supporting an [[armillary sphere]].<ref>Dianne L. Durante, ''Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide'' 2007:139ff.</ref> At its unveiling, some critics were reminded of [[Benito Mussolini]], while [[James Montgomery Flagg]] suggested that it looked as Mussolini ''thought'' he looked.<ref>Durante 2007:141 offers this and some further negative quotes from artists and critics in New York during the forties.</ref> The international character of [[Streamline Moderne]], embraced by [[Fascism]] as well as corporate democracy, lost favor during the Second World War.

Featured above the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza and axially behind the golden Prometheus, Lawrie's ''Wisdom'' is one of the most visible works of art in the complex. An Art Deco piece, it echoes the statements of power shown in ''Atlas'' and [[Paul Manship]]'s ''[[Prometheus (Manship)|Prometheus]]''.

===Other commissions===
* 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]]
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* Sculptural elements of the Fidelity Mutual Life Building in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (now [[Perelman Building]] of the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], including 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]]
* ''Whatsoever a Man Soweth'', fifth issue of the long running [[Society of Medalists]].
* 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 Tower|Harkness Memorial Tower]] at [[Yale University]], [[New Haven, Connecticut]]
* [[Sterling Memorial Library]] at Yale University
* [[Beaumont Tower]] at [[Michigan State University]] in [[East Lansing, Michigan]]
* [[Kirk in the Hills]] Presbyterian in [[Bloomfield Hills, Michigan]]
* [[Bok Singing Tower]] in Mountain Lake, [[Florida]], architects Zantzinger, Borie and Medary
* Designed sculptures for the [[Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial]] in [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany, France]], executed by Jean Juge of Paris and the French sculptor, Augustine Beggi.
* [[Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial]] gravestone.
* World War I Memorial Flagstaff, [[Pasadena, California]]<ref>visited and photographed, September 2012</ref>
* [[State Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)|Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge]], [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], 1930<ref>Lawrie, Lee, Lee Lawrie: Sculpture, J.H. Jansen, Cleveland, Ohio,  1936,  Plate 6</ref>