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Wisdom, with Light and Sound
A Lee Lawrie sculpture at
30 Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
A limestone panel relief of a bearded man, holding a compass, who represents Wisdom. He is flanked on both sides by panels each with a figure, one representing Light and one representing Sound. Sound, on Wisdom's proper right, is a muscular male nude crouched on all fours. Light, on Wisdom's proper left, is a robed female reclining among the clouds. Below each panel is a grid pattern consisting of 240 Corning glass blocks. The Corning Glass Works produced the screen of glass blocks, each hand-poured and containing intended imperfections. The artist, Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), was one of the United States' foremost architectural prior to World War II.
“And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.”
Isaiah 33:6
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