Photo courtesy of Ray Herz, Numismatist.
Lawrie often used the Sower as a favorite theme. This illustration shows the medal created as the fifth edition of the Society of Medalists issue.
About this medal, Lawrie wrote,
"I chose the Sower for the subject of this medal because it is a character that I have long admired. There was a farmer in Illinois that I as a boy liked to watch sow. I can see him now--his stride, and the swing of his arm, regular as though timed, as he distributed the grain evenly over the soil. My reason for using the verse from Galatians is that it seems applicable to our age. All of us are sowers, and we should not expect life to yield much in return for little or nothing. or anything at all for the mere wishing--either in a material or in a higher, abstract way.
The medal is intended to cause reflection upon this age-old saying, 'Whatsoever a Man Soweth That Shall He Also Reap,' and those who pause to look at the medal may each read into it meanings of his own."
Lee Lawrie, 1932.