[3] He studied privately with Caroline Hunt Rimmer,[4] and opened his own sculpture studio in Boston, specializing in portrait works.

[6] Burnham graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles in 1907,[5] and made an extended 1908 tour of the South and Southwest in a production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.

The monument consists of a life size bronze warrior, wearing a championship belt and pleated skirt, a mohawk-plumed helmet, shin guards and sandals.

[12] Burnham was living in Honolulu in April 1918, when the United States entered World War I, and joined the Hawaii National Guard.

[17] An ace U.S. Army pilot who died in World War I, Second Lieutenant Luke was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

The memorial was restored with fiberglass replicas of the statues by sculptor David Wilkins,[21] and relocated to Los Angeles National Cemetery.

[3] Needing some strong vertical projections to carry the lines of the four large Corinthian columns on the front into the attic story, Mr. Edward T. P. Graham, architect of the Annex, decided to use partially attached human figures.

Keeping their architectural character in mind, the sculptor designed the figures with a certain stiffness and with emphasis upon the vertical lines of the Greek drapery.

[7] Following the 1926 premature death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino, Los Angeles City Council initially opposed the creation of a public monument to him.

[28] Its cubical black marble base featured an inscription: "Erected in Memory of / RUDOLPH VALENTINO / 1895 - 1926 / Presented by His Friends and / Admirers from Every Walk of / Life and in All Parts of the World / in Appreciation of the Happi- / ness Brought to Them by His / Cinema Portrayals.

[29] The Astronomers Monument (1934), at Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, was built by the Public Works of Art Project of the New Deal.

[30] Designed by sculptor Archibald Garner, it is a hexagonal cast concrete obelisk, crowned by a bronze armillary sphere.

[30] Above its star-shaped base are six V-shaped recesses, in each of which stands a cast concrete Art Deco statue of an astronomer from history.

Under contract to 20th Century Fox, the studio decided to name its new sound stage for Rogers, and commissioned Burnham to create a memorial plaque.

[31] The dedication was November 23, 1935, and the bronze portrait plaque was unveiled by 7-year-old Shirley Temple, Rogers's intended co-star for their next movie.

[39] He modeled anthropomorphic figures representing the eight ingredients used to make plastics: Air, Coal, Limestone, Oil, Phosphate, Salt, Sulphur, and Water.

[45] He exhibited at the 1913 Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris,[46] and the 1913 Exposition Internationale de Gand in Brussels.

[53] His portrait bust of poet Alfred Noyes was awarded First Prize at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 1944 annual exhibition.

[57] Burnham found the view from Griffith Park inspiring, and built a studio "in a little dead-end place, perched almost on the Observatory grounds.