Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol. Although Ellerhusen and Lawrie worked together on several buildings it is only at Goodhue's Christ Church Cranbrook (1928) that it is difficult to determine who did what. It is likely that each did several of the figures independently, but their styles are so similar, and in this case the figures representing such atypically ecclesiastical people as Wilbur Wright, Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Gutenberg, Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are closer to Ellerhusen's more relaxed and naturalistic style than Lawrie's. For the Louisiana State Capitol building Ellerhusen created "four colossal corner figures standing for 'four dominating spirits of a free and enlightened people,''' " Law, Science, Art and Philosophy. He also produced a frieze Louisiana: History and Life that is divided into five parts and wraps around the building at the fifth floor level. In one section Ellerhusen used a son (Solis Seiferth, Jr.) and a daughter (Carol Dreyfous) of the building's architects as models for figures of children in his design. Ellerhusen, a longtime member of the National Sculpture Society, taught throughout much of his career, and spent the final years of his life in Towaco, New Jersey, where he had founded an art school and taught alongside his wife Florence Cooney Ellerhusen, a landscape painter. Gallery Selected works Altar of Democracy (Peace Monument), East Orange, New Jersey, 1922 Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, 1926 Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1928 Louisiana State Capitol, 1932 Panels Atomic Energy and Stellar Energy on the facade of the Electrical Building at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1933 First Permanent Settlement of the West (aka Pioneer Monument), Old Fort Harrod State Park, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, with architect Francis Keally, 1934 Kansas City City Hall, 1936, friezes on the east and west walls Gold Man (aka Oregon Pioneer) finial figure on the Oregon State Capitol, with Keally, 1938 References Kvaran and Lockley, Architectural Sculpture in America'', unpublished manuscript Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 1879 births 1957 deaths American architectural sculptors American male sculptors People from Montville, New Jersey School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Art Students League of New York alumni 20th-century American sculptors National Sculpture Society members Sculptors from New York (state) 20th-century American male artists