Lie was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1912, and a full member in 1925.[11] He served as NAD's president from 1934 to 1939. He was invited to exhibit four paintings in New York City's 1913 Armory Show: The Black Teapot, At the Aquarium, A Hill Top, The Quarry.[11]

Prizes
St. Louis Purchase Exposition, silver medal for A Mill Race, 1904
National Academy of Design, First Hallgarten Prize for Afterglow, 1914[11]
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, silver medal for The Gates of Pedro Miguel, 1915
Newport Art Association, Richard Greenough Memorial Prize, Newport, RI, 1916
Art Week, Philadelphia, gold medal, 1925
Chicago Norske Klub, Bendickson Prize, 1920
Chicago Norske Klub, Oscar H. Haugan Prize, 1927
National Academy of Design, Carnegie Prize for The Cloud, 1927[11]
National Arts Club, Maida Gregg Memorial Prize, 1929
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jessie Sesnan Medal for Snow, 1935[12]
National Academy of Design, Saltus Medal for The Curtain Rises, 1936[11]
National Academy of Design, Obrig Prize for Rockbound Coast, 1937[11]
National Academy of Design, Saltus Medal for Old Smuggler's Cove, 1938[11]
1939 New York World's Fair, third prize for Rockbound Coast, 1939
Selected works