Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: 30 Rockefeller Plaza

Accession Number: 
136601
Order Title: 
Archivision Base Collection--16,370 images
Type of View: 
generalView
View Title: 
Entrance frieze, polychrome stone and glass decoration by Lee Lawrie, installed 1933
Date of View: 
6/1/1994
Image description: 
The frieze located above the main entrance was produced by Lee Lawrie and depicts "Wisdom", along with a slogan that reads "Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times", from Isaiah 33:6 (KJV).
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Culture: 
American
Work Types: 
Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; office buildings
Related Work Title: 
Rockefeller Center; partOf
Preferred Title: 
30 Rockefeller Plaza
Agent Display: 
Barry Faulkner (American mosaicist, 1881-1966); Gaston Lachaise (French sculptor, 1882-1935); Lee Oskar Lawrie (American sculptor, 1877-1961); Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934)
Date: 
1930-1933 (creation)
Materials: 
stone; steel; glass
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurement: 
850 ft (height)
Alternate Title: 
RCA Building
Alternate Title: 
GE Building
Locations: 
New York, New York, United States
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Art Deco
Style/Period: 
Twentieth century
Classification: 
Architecture