Robert Burns (Stevenson)

Robert Burns

Artist	William Grant Stevenson
Year	1908 (USA)
Type	bronze
Dimensions	370 cm (144 in)
Location	North Prospect Ave. and East Knapp St., Milwaukee
Coordinates	43°2′48.253″N 87°53′48.691″W / 43.04673694°N 87.89685861°W / 43.04673694; -87.89685861Coordinates: 43°2′48.253″N 87°53′48.691″W / 43.04673694°N 87.89685861°W / 43.04673694; -87.89685861

Robert Burns is a public art statue of the Scottish poet Robert Burns by the Scottish artist William Grant Stevenson. The 10 metre (33 ft) bronze figure depicts the popular Scottish poet standing with notebook in hand.^[1] The original is in Kilmarnock in Scotland, as the centrepiece of the Burns Monument, Kilmarnock. A copy is located in Burns Commons on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[2]^[3] This statue on its plinth of pink Nova Scotia granite stands 23 feet (7.0 m) tall. Both copies were cast in Edinburgh.

References

↑ Buck, Diane (1995). Outdoor Sculpture in Milwaukee. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society. pp. 6–8. ISBN 978-0-87020-276-6.
↑ "Robert Burns, (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog-SIRIS. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
↑ In Milwaukee, it is located at the intersection of North Prospect Avenue, East Knapp Street, and North Franklin Place, and owned by the Milwaukee County Parks Department.

Milwaukee public art

Downtown	The Victorious Charge Family The Calling Wisconsin Workers Memorial Wind Leaves Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil The Great Double Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans Solomon Juneau Leif, the Discoverer Letter Carriers' Monument Argo Bronze Fonz Walkways Through the Wall Abraham Lincoln George Washington Referee Immigrant Mother King Gambrinus RiverSculpture! Gertie the Duck General Douglas MacArthur The Spirit of Polonia World War I Memorial Flagpole Pedestrian Drama Midsummer Carnival Shaft Acqua Grylli Laureate Diana Trigon Pere Jacques Marquette Spanish-American War Soldier Ruins X Ex Stasis City Yard Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Peter John A Beam of Sun to Shake the Sky Rainbow Machine Topiary Lucere Dancing Through Life Gertie Gets Her Ducks in a Row Mother Teresa Monument Jacques Marquette You Rise Above the World The Last Alarm

North Side	Celebrating the Arts Christian Wahl Elk On Watch Pattern Lapham Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. here, mothers are... Music Fishing Spirit of the Firefighter Dauntless Guardian Buildings 1992 Gear 23 All in the Air at Once First Flight Sea of the Ear Kindred Ties

East Side	Cleopatra's Wedge Float Polyphony Boy with Goose Eight Stone Lions Three Bronze Discs Holocaust Memorial Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology Blue Dress Park Sentinels Hermes Milwaukee Eclipse 'X' Intertwining Compass Erastus B. Wolcott Sharing the Load Robert Burns Near Here Compass Walk Like a River Spillover II Tip Jantar-Mantar Cass Street Park Brady Street Beasts Connect Fairies Candles

South Side	Menomonee Count Casimir Pulaski Spirit of Commerce Bay View Series A Place to Sit Stratiformis The Hill Climber Deflected Jets Angel in a Cage R.D. Whitehead Monument Memorial for Belle Austin Jacobs T.A. Chapman Memorial Nature Belle Oops, Missed Space Game Engine Company No. 10 William A. Starke Memorial Steel Reborn Red Flower Rising General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Patrick Cudahy Memorial SOARING Two Opposites Reaching Up Toward the Peak of Progress Edge Elements Ribbons VI Bridge Stone Bracelet Untitled Quartet Tending the Fire Bird and Fish The Sower The Reaper Giving Gifts

West Side	Henry Bergh Goethe–Schiller Monument Chrysalis The Ideal Scout Uptown Triangles Tree of Life Magic Grove Steuben Monument Kneeling Camels Teamwork Aaron Monument Yount Monument Selig Monument Uecker Monument Fire and Water Vliet Street Commons Miller Valley Veterans Monument Children of the West End

Lynden Sculpture Garden	Sinai Wandering Rocks Sea Form (Atlantic) Sky Fence Floating Sculpture No. 3 Mo, Ni, Que Trio Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Way Four Compound Junior Salem No. 7 Bremen Town Musicians Ancestor Queen of Sheba Rhythm in Space Peristyle, Three Lines Orizzontale Embrace Ursa Major Three Graces Large Torso, Arch Double Up Upstart The Lovers Poland Axeltree Orbits Ritual II Hara Olympus The Lovers Tensione No. 2 The Source Rainbow Unfolding Vegetative Sculpture I Round About Lodgepole Twist for Max Bench-Stone Windfall Knife Tree Conversations with Magic Stones, Figure Three Conversations with Magic Stones (Magic Stone Three) Kumo Untitled Arch Epicenter Epicenter II III Columns Flight Pin Oak I

Mobile projects	Overpass Light Brigade

Overview	List of public art in Milwaukee

Robert Burns

Poems	"Comin' Thro' the Rye" (1782) "John Barleycorn" (1782) "Address to the Deil" (1785) "Epitaph for James Smith" (1785) "Halloween" (1785) "Holy Willie's Prayer" (1785) "To a Mouse" (1785) The Kilmarnock volume (1786) "To a Louse" (1786) "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786) "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787) "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787) "Auld Lang Syne" (1788) "My Heart's in the Highlands" (1789) Tam o' Shanter (1790) "Ae Fond Kiss" (1791) "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" (1791) "Sweet Afton" (1791) "The Slave's Lament" (1792) "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" (1793) "Scots Wha Hae" (1793) "A Red, Red Rose" (1794) "Is There for Honest Poverty" (1795)

Places	Burns Cottage Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm The Hermitage (Friars Carse) Writers' Museum

Family	Jean Armour (wife) Agnes Broun (mother) William Burnes (father) Gilbert Burns (brother)

People	John Anderson Alison Begbie Thomas Blacklock Nelly Blair Richard Brown May Cameron Mary Campbell Jenny Clow Lord Glencairn Frances Dunlop Jean Gardner Jean Glover Helen Hyslop Nelly Kilpatrick John MacKenzie Agnes Maclehose Ann Park Elizabeth Paton David Sillar Peggy Thompson

Related	Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton Burns Clubs Irvine Atlanta Burns supper Memorials Kilmarnock Montreal Barre Robert Burns (Stevenson) Robert Burns (Varga) Robert Burns (Steell) Robert Burns' diamond point engravings Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Robert Burns Humanitarian Award Robert Burns World Federation The Loves of Robert Burns (1930 film)

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