Bust of Robert Burns
Bust of Robert Burns pictured in May 2023

Artist	Ferenc Varga
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Bronze
Subject	Robert Burns
Location	Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinates	29°43′18.8″N 95°23′17.4″W / 29.721889°N 95.388167°W / 29.721889; -95.388167

An outdoor bronze sculpture of the poet Robert Burns by Hungarian-American artist Ferenc Varga is installed in Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, United States. The bust was placed in Hermann Park in 2002.^[1]

See also

References

^ "Points of Interest: Robert Burns". Hermann Park Conservancy. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.

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Atropos Key Brownie Hermann Park Golf Course Hermann Park Railroad Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston Zoo Houston's Hermann Park Japan Festival Japanese Garden Lillian Schnitzer Fountain Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Reflection Pool McGovern Lake Miller Outdoor Theatre Oliver Twist Pioneer Memorial Sam Houston Monument Statue of George H. Hermann Statue of Richard W. Dowling
McGovern Centennial Gardens	Bust of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Bust of Benito Juárez Bust of José de San Martín Bust of José Martí Bust of José Rizal Bust of Ramón Castilla Bust of Robert Burns Bust of Simón Bolívar (1977) Bust of Vicente Rocafuerte Dawn (1971) Statue of Confucius (2009) Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (2004) Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (2007)
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Public art in Houston

Works

Lillie and Hugh Roy
Cullen Sculpture Garden

Adam
Arch Falls
The Back Series
Big Twist
Conversation with the Wind
The Crab
Cybele
The Dance
Decanter
Exhaling Pearls
Flora, Nude
Gymnast II
Houston Triptych
The Large Horse
Large Standing Woman I
New Forms
The Pilgrim
Quarantania I
Recuerdo de Machu Picchu 3 (Las terrazas)
The Sound of Night
The Spirit of Eternal Repose
Two Circle Sentinel
The Walking Man
Untitled (Shapiro, 1990)

McGovern
Centennial Gardens

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Graffiti in Houston

v t e Robert Burns
Poems	"Comin' Thro' the Rye" (1782) "John Barleycorn" (1782) "Man Was Made to Mourn" (1784) "Address to the Deil" (1785) "Epitaph for James Smith" (1785) "Halloween" (1785) "Handsome Nell" (1774) "Holy Willie's Prayer" (1785) "To a Mouse" (1785) The Kilmarnock volume (1786) "To a Louse" (1786) "To a Mountain Daisy" (1786) "The Cotter's Saturday Night" (1786) "The Battle of Sherramuir" (1787) "The Birks of Aberfeldy" (1787) "The Holy Tulzie" (1784) "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) "Ye Jacobites by Name" (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) "Ca' the yowes" (revised, 1794) "A Man's A Man for A' That" (1795)
Books	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh Belfast Dublin Variant London
Places	Brownhill Inn Burns Cottage Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm Friars Carse The Hermitage, Friars Carse Irvine Burns Club Millmannoch Mossgiel Farm Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Writers' Museum
Family	Jean Armour (wife) Robert Burns Junior (son) Francis Wallace Burns (son) William Nicol Burns (son) Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns (natural daughter) James Glencairn Burns (son) Agnes Broun (mother) William Burnes (father) Gilbert Burns (brother) Agnes Burns (sister) Annabella Burns (sister) William Burns (brother) John Burns (brother) Isabella Burns (sister) Adam Armour (brother-in-law) James Armour (father-in-law) Robert Burnes (uncle)
People	Robert Aiken Robert Ainslie John Anderson John Bacon (landlord) John Ballantine Alison Begbie Thomas Blacklock Nelly Blair Richard Brown May Cameron Mary Campbell Margaret Chalmers Jenny Clow Alison Cockburn Alexander Cunningham (lawyer) Lord Glencairn Frances Dunlop Robert Fergusson Alexander Findlater Jean Gardner Jean Glover Robert Graham of Fintry Gavin Hamilton Helen Hyslop Nelly Kilpatrick John Lewars Janet Little Jean Lorimer (Chloris) James McKie John MacKenzie Agnes Maclehose John McMurdo William Maxwell John Murdoch William Nicol Ann Park Elizabeth Paton John Richmond James Smith David Sillar John Syme Alexander Tait Robert Tannahill Peggy Thompson Edward Whigham
Related	The Geddes Burns Glenriddell Manuscripts Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton Burns Clubs Robert Burns World Federation Bust of Robert Burns Irvine Atlanta Burns supper Memorials Kilmarnock Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783–1785 Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum Montreal Barre Albany Boston Robert Burns (Stevenson) Robert Burns (Steell) Robert Burns's diamond point engravings Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Robert Burns Humanitarian Award The Loves of Robert Burns (1930 film) "The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren" "The Merry Muses of Caledonia" The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid A Manual of Religious Belief

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