Statue Of Robert Burns (San Francisco)
A statue of Robert Burns by Melvin Earl Cummings is installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California. External links * Golden Gate Park Monuments and memorials in California Outdoor sculptures in San Francisco Sculptures of men in California Statues in California San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

Melvin Earl Cummings
Melvin Earl Cummings (August 13, 1876 – July 21, 1936), also known as M. Earl Cummings, was an American sculptor active in San Francisco, California. Biography Melvin Earl Cummings was born on August 13, 1876, in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the age of 20, his entire family moved to San Francisco. He studied sculpture first at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, under Arthur Mathews and later Douglas Tilden, and subsequently from 1900 to 1903 at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Louis Noël and Antonin Mercié. After his return to San Francisco, he became professor of sculpture at the Mark Hopkins Institute (now San Francisco Art Institute), which position he retained to 1915. In addition, in 1906 he was appointed instructor in modeling (and later promoted to assistant professor) in the University of California, Berkeley's School of Architecture, which position he held until his death. He was succeeded in his role at U.C. Berkeley by Jacques Schnie ...
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