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    		• Aitken, Robert,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Burns, Robert
     
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    		• Occupation -- Writer
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Scottish
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- St. Louis
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Robert Burns, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Robert Burns, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1925-1927. Dedicated June 2, 1928.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Figure: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: 8 ft. x 30 in. x 30 in.; Base: 8 ft. 6 in. x 8 ft. x 8 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On side of figure, toward back:) AITKEN (On front of base:) ROBERT BURNS/ERECTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF/THE BURNS CLUB OF ST. LOUIS/BY ADMIRERS OF ROBERT BURNS/AND HIS GENIUS/1928 signed
    Description: 
    Youthful standing figure of Robert Burns. Figure has coat draped over proper left arm, scythe resting in crook of proper left arm, and his proper left hand is on his proper left hip. Sheaves of wheat are behind figure. Figure holds book in proper right hand, resting on proper right thigh. He stands with his proper left leg forward.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Burns, Robert -- Full length
    Occupation -- Writer -- Poet
    Ethnic -- Scottish
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- St. Louis
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Campus Box 1214, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 Accession Number: WU 4491
    Located Washington University, Bixby Hall East Lawn, St. Louis, Missouri
    Remarks: 
    Gift of the Burns Society of St. Louis, 1928. The dedication of the sculpture was held on the occasion of Robert Burns' 170th birthday, June 2, 1928. The sculpture was not accessioned until February 1972. IAS files contain articles from Student Life (St. Louis, MO), Oct. 1, 1982, and The Washingtonian (St. Louis, MO) (May-June 1928) which discuss the commissioning and dedication of the sculpture.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri, St. Louis survey, 1993.
    McCue, George, "Sculpture City: St. Louis," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1988, pg. 91-92.
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
    Student Life (St. Louis, MO), Oct. 1, 1982, pg. 8.
    Washington University Gallery of Art, "Illustrated Checklist of the Collection," 1981, pg. 14.
    The Washingtonian (St. Louis, MO) 4-5 (May-June 1928): pg. 12.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Student Life (St. Louis, MO), Oct. 1, 1982, pg. 8.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 76001198
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