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    		• Cummings, Melvin Earl,
     
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    		• Louis De Rome's Bronze Foundry,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Burns, Robert
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Scottish
     
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    		• Occupation -- Writer
     
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    		• Literature -- Burns
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Robert Burns, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Cummings, Melvin Earl, 1876-1936, sculptor.
    Louis De Rome's Bronze Foundry, founder.
    Title: 
    Robert Burns, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1906. Dedicated Feb. 22, 1908.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of base:) BURNS (On plaque on front of base:) ROBERT BURNS/1759-1786/TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY - 1786/WEE, MODEST CRIMSON-TOPPED FLOW'R/THOU'S MET ME IN AN EVIL HOUR/FOR I MAUN CRUSH AMONG THE STOURE/THY SLENDER STEM:/TO SPARE THEE NOW IS PAST MY POW'R/THOU BONIE GEM./THIS PLAQUE DONATED BY THE CAKLENDONIAN CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 1970.
    Description: 
    Full-length portrait of Robert Burns. He holds a small book in his proper left hand. He is dressed in eighteenth-century costume including breeches, vest and long-tailed jacket. The sculpture stands on a granite base. The front face of the base features a relief floral swag with ribbons.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Burns, Robert -- Full length
    Ethnic -- Scottish
    Occupation -- Writer -- Poet
    Literature -- Burns -- A Mountain Daisy
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, California 94102
    Located Golden Gate Park, South side of J. F. Kennedy Drive, opposite 8th Avenue & Fulton Street, San Francisco, California
    Remarks: 
    The memorial cost $5,000. It was donated to the city and unveiled by St. Andrew's Society. IAS files contain copy of transcription of related article from San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 23, 1908 and copy of related Arts Commission 1985 Condition Survey of Outdoor Monuments report. For additional information see Merrill Reed's "Historical Statues and Monuments in California", San Francisco: 1956, pg. 37.
    References: 
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, CA2022, 2044, 2055, 1989.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1993.
    Monumental News, Nov. 1905, Aug. 1908, Jan. 1910.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    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 CA001736
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