A piece by one of the world’s most renowned sculptors of the 20th century sits quietly on the street.
This one took a bit of digging. I couldn’t find a signature, mark or date on it. Google image search helped me discover that is a piece, which up until recently I called a statue in my head, is actually a sculpture, thanks for the clarification written by the Modern Sculpture Artists. The bronze sculpture is a part The Family of Man series by the renowned artist Barbara Hepworth created in the 1970s. Blogger Midcentry Modernist helpfully identified the sculpture and artist as well as posts a photo of the “family”
Ancestor I, was revealed to the public on Wednesday, May 19th, 1976 by Mayor Greenberg, and Hugh Poulin MP for the Ottawa Centre with curator Dr. Alan Wilkinsin of the Toronto Henry Moore Centre. The sculpture had been purchased by Olympia and York Developments for L’Esplanade Laurier and is one of the first major Barbara Hepburn pieces to be on permanent display outside in Canada.
The reporter in the Ottawa Citizen concluded with “And after the epithets and piles of praise had been ceremoniously heaped upon it, they left it. To speak for itself.”
Ancestor I speaks, and I am glad to have finally heard it.
Plaques, Statues and Cornerstones 