About Greg Harm

Greg Harm is the curator of this virtual museum.

Since 1991, Harm has lived & worked in Austin, Texas. He was born, raised, educated and worked in Lincoln, Nebraska, and spent his youth and early middle ages there, moving to Austin after graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in December 1991. 

Harm served 23 years as a policy researcher, research analyst, and paralegal for the State of Texas at the Railroad Commission of Texas 5.5 years, and for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, for 17 years, before retiring at the end of September 2017.  From 1997-1999, Harm attended Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, approximately 30 miles south of Austin.  In December 1999, he earned a Master of Arts Degree in Legal Studies and Legal Administration, attending classes at night while working full-time days, and studying the rest of that time.  

He is available for consultation, speaking engagements and welcomes your questions, via our contact page.

Research

Harm honed his research skills over a quarter of a century, working as a paralegal in the public sector.  Along that journey, he earned a master’s degree in Legal Studies and Legal Administration from Texas State University. He also holds a bachelor’s in Political Science from Nebraska. 

Travel and Tourism

Over the past two decades, Harm has traveled to New York City, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Wichita, Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, documenting Lawrie’s never fully documented works, through photography and writing.  Harm wrote the first book fully cataloging, documenting, illustrating and explaining the history and symbolism behind the sculpture at the Nebraska State Capitol. 

Photography

Harm has over a half century of experience in Photography, and still researches new processing technologies and applications.  Harm has literally thousands of images of Lawrie’s work, taken and curated over the past two decades. 

Author

Harm’s first book, Lee Lawrie’s Prairie Deco: History in Stone at the Nebraska State Capitol, was first published in 2008, and was the first to publish Lawrie’s birth name, Hugo Belling. Harm has also discovered and identified Lawrie’s first independent commission, a statue of Father James P. McIncrow in St. Mary’s Parish Cemetery in Amsterdam, New York, done in 1897, when Lawrie was barely 20. 

Harm was also the first to publish the fact that the Nebraska State Capitol was the largest sculptural commission that Lawrie executed in his lifetime, and on which he spent nearly fourteen years.