Artist
Lee Lawrie
born Rixford, Germany 1877-died Easton, MD 1963
- Also known as
- Lee Oskar Lawrie
- Lee O. Lawrie
- Lee O. Laurie
- Born
- Rixford, Germany
- Died
- Easton, Maryland, United States
- Biography
Born in Germany, Lee Lawrie arrived in the United States when he was very young, and began working in sculptor Richard Henry Park’s Chicago studio when he was only fourteen. In 1908, Lawrie began teaching at the Yale School of Fine Arts and the Harvard School of Architecture. One of his most notable designs depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the American dime.