This image is of the entranceway relief sculpture by Lee Lawrie, located at the RCA Building, Rockefeller Centre, New York City.wisdom and stability shall be

The quote is from the Scripture in Isaiah 33:6: “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.”

Lee Lawrie was trained in Beaux-Arts’ Classicism, and his long career exceeded 300 works throughout the United States. Other works include the freestanding statue of Atlas on Fifth Avenue, the Los Angeles Central Library, the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel, the allegorical relief panels of the United States Senate, the Louisiana State Capitol, the statue of George Washington at the National Cathedral in Washington DC and the Harkness Tower of Yale University.

 

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