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Bronze Atlas sculpture carrying a celestial armillary at the Fifth Avenue entrance to Rockefeller Center.
Atlas · Rockefeller Center · 1937

Lee Lawrie · 1876–1963

The Machine-Age Michelangelo

Monuments to
a machine age

The independent archive documenting America’s overlooked master of architectural sculpture.

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Photograph representing Whales. Lee Lawrie’s largest and most ambitious architectural commissions, where sculpture and building form a single, sustained programme.WhalesPhotograph representing Details, Details. The functional works that bring Lawrie’s imagination to the everyday experience of architecture: chandeliers, doors, lamps and grilles.Details,Photograph representing Civic Buildings. Sculpture that gives democracy, education and public life a physical language.CivicPhotograph representing War Memorials. Commissions shaped by remembrance, grief and national memory.War Memorials

The definitive study

Lee Lawrie’s Prairie Deco

Gregory Paul Harm’s richly illustrated history follows the artist’s life, vision and the sculpture of the Nebraska State Capitol.

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Cover of Lee Lawrie’s Prairie Deco beside the book’s award medal.

“A rich, beautifully illustrated historical account for art lovers and prairie deco devotees.”

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Portrait of Gregory Paul Harm, the archive’s curator and photographer.

The curator

Research that stays close to the stone.

Gregory Paul Harm has spent decades tracing, photographing and interpreting Lawrie’s work, from public monuments to overlooked architectural detail.

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