Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery received a $125,000 award from the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts on Thursday as part of a heritage stabilization program to help the gallery stage future exhibits.
The funding will help the institution expand its number of patrons and programs to make the collection more accessible to the public, said Bernard Riordon, director of the gallery.
A very public battle with Lord Beaverbrook's grandchildren helped secure the money for the gallery, said Anne Bertrand, chair of the arts foundation.
The legal issue left many in the province wondering if there was a chance the gallery might be lost, she said.
"That's what became such an important factor for us," she said.
Earlier in the year the Beaverbrook U.K. Foundation was ordered to pay the gallery's legal bills after a battle over the ownership its paintings.
The gallery was awarded 85 of the 133 paintings in the gallery that were argued to have been given to New Brunswickers as gifts from Lord Beaverbrook when he built the gallery in the late 1950s.
The foundation, chaired be Lord Beaverbrook's grandson, contended the paintings were on loan.
Riordon said the gallery is trying to put the legal issue behind it as quickly as possible but admits it has helped the institution it some ways.
"This certainly gives the confidence that there is a validation of what we're doing. We're protecting the assets of the people of New Brunswick."
The most valuable works in the gallery's collection include J.M.W. Turner's The Fountain of Indolence and Lucian Freud's Hotel Bedroom.
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