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Outdoor sculptures

Sam Houston monument, Hermann Park
Sam Houston Monument
Spirit of the Confederacy, Sam Houston Park
Spirit of the Confederacy


  • African Elephant (1982)
  • Alexander Hodge Memorial
  • Atropos Key (1972), Miller Outdoor Theatre
  • Beer Can House
  • Broken Obelisk, Rothko Chapel
  • Brownie (1905), Houston Zoo
  • Bygones (1976), Menil Collection
  • Cancer, There Is Hope (1990)
  • Charlotte Allen Fountain
  • Charmstone (sculpture), Menil Collection
  • Cloud Column (2006), Glassell School of Art
  • Inversion
  • Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2)
  • Lillian Schnitzer Fountain (1875), Hermann Park
  • Monument au Fantôme, Discovery Green
  • Oliver Twist
  • The Orange Show
  • Pioneer Memorial (1936), Hermann Park
  • Points of View (1991), Market Square Park
  • Radiant Fountains
  • Scanlan Fountain
  • Sam Houston Monument, Hermann Park
  • Spirit of the Confederacy, Sam Houston Park
  • Statue of Christopher Columbus (1992), Bell Park
  • Statue of George H. Hermann
  • Statue of Richard W. Dowling (1905), Hermann Park
  • Tolerance
  • Virtuoso, Downtown Houston
  • World War I Monument
  • World War II Memorial

Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden

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The Back Series, Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden

The following works have been displayed at the 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
  • 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

Statue of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Houston TX - panoramio
Bust of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, McGovern Centennial Gardens

The following works are installed at McGovern Centennial Gardens:

  • Benito Juárez
  • Bust of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  • Bust of Bernardo O'Higgins
  • Bust of José Martí
  • Bust of José Rizal
  • Bust of Ramón Castilla
  • Bust of Robert Burns
  • Bust of Vicente Rocafuerte
  • Dawn (1971)
  • Statue of Confucius (2009)
  • Statue of José de San Martín
  • Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (2004)
  • Statue of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Statue of Simón Bolívar
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