Called The Beavers, the artwork is a 1,400-kilogram grey limestone carving of a mother and baby beaver, both hunched over logs
The Beavers sculpture in a 2024 photo. The piece now has a new home in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in downtown Fredericton.When people pass by the white-pillared Beaverbrook Art Gallery starting this weekend, they will be greeted by one of Fredericton’s most famous sculptures.
First installed in Officers’ Square in 1959, the sculpture spent decades braving the elements – and generations of children who climbed atop the carving or sat on the beavers’ stone backs. But it was removed from the downtown park in 2016 after city workers noticed how badly it was damaged. Following a two-week restoration over the summer, it will be presented to the public in its new home on Saturday.
Beaverbrook was from Newcastle, which is now part of Miramichi, and went on to become a newspaper publisher, businessman, politician – serving as a British cabinet minister during the two world wars – and University of New Brunswick chancellor. He was also a philanthropist, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery is one of the many projects he funded.Roussel is considered a pioneer of modern art in Acadia.
The wading pool was removed in the early 1990s, and the sculpture sat on a concrete pedestal for the next 30 years, she said, adding that it was a popular and endearing piece on which children climbed or sat.After city workers and officials noticed a few cracks in the sculpture in 2016, Watson said they moved the carving into storage and began exploring how it could be restored. The city hired an art conservator in the summer of 2023 to assess how to preserve it.
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