Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1993
Abstract
Drama is the quality that Hartley Burr Alexander, the "thematic consultant" for the Nebraska State Capitol, admired in the sculpture of his time. In his role as consultant, Alexander fused the ideas of the building's architect, Bertram Goodhue, and its sculptor, Lee Lawrie, into a sustained programmatic interpretation of society and law. This paper discusses the significance and the development of the twenty-one Lawrie sculptural panels around the cornices of the Capitol that illustrate the "Development of Law."1
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:1 (Winter 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.