--- title: Lucille Ball: Artist Offers to Replace 'Scary' Sculpture for Free description: The artist behind the statue said it's "not befitting of Lucy’s beauty or my ability as a sculptor." canonical: https://time.com/3773304/scary-lucille-ball-statue/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-07T01:45:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:25.938Z og:title: Sculptor Behind 'Scary' Lucille Ball Statue Offers to Replace it for Free og:description: The artist said it's "not befitting of Lucy’s beauty or my ability as a sculptor" og:url: https://time.com/3773304/scary-lucille-ball-statue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74ab914c21e1ab85/698786f1e53aba1ee84d86f8/lucille-ball-statue.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Lucille Ball Hometown Statue og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sculptor Behind 'Scary' Lucille Ball Statue Offers to Replace it for Free twitter:description: The artist said it's "not befitting of Lucy’s beauty or my ability as a sculptor" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74ab914c21e1ab85/698786f1e53aba1ee84d86f8/lucille-ball-statue.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sculptor Behind 'Scary' Lucille Ball Statue Offers to Replace it for Free  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Apr 7, 2015 1:45 AM CUT  A bronze sculpture of Lucille Ball is displayed in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, N.Y. A bronze sculpture of Lucille Ball is displayed in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, N.Y.The Post-Journal/AP  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Apr 7, 2015 1:45 AM CUT The sculptor behind an [unflattering statue of Lucille Ball](http://edit.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lucille-ball-statue-sculptor-apologizes-786633?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined") that has upset residents of the actress’ New York hometown for years has offered to replace it free of charge. “I take full responsibility for ‘Scary Lucy,’ though by no means was that my intent or did I wish to disparage in any way the memories of the iconic Lucy image,” Dave Poulin said in a letter to _The Hollywood Reporter_. Some locals of Celoron, N.Y., where the statue of the _I Love Lucy_ star was unveiled in 2009, even started a Facebook group dedicated to getting rid of it. Poulin said he’ll return “with the promise of creating a new beautiful and charming ‘Lucy’ in its place.” Celoron officials said Poulin wanted around $10,000 to re-do the sculpture, [according to the Associated Press](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/04/06/lucille-ball-statue-needs-makeover-locals-say/ "undefined"). “From the day of its installation, I have shared my disappointment in the final outcome and have always believed it to be by far my most unsettling sculpture, not befitting of Lucy’s beauty or my ability as a sculptor,” Poulin wrote. “Yes, in retrospect, it should have never been cast in bronze and made public, and I take complete ownership of that poor decision.” \[[_THR_](http://edit.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lucille-ball-statue-sculptor-apologizes-786633?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3773304/scary-lucille-ball-statue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3773304/scary-lucille-ball-statue/"},"headline":"Sculptor Behind 'Scary' Lucille Ball Statue Offers to Replace it for Free","datePublished":"2015-04-07T01:45:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:25.938Z","description":"The artist said it's \"not befitting of Lucy’s beauty or my ability as a sculptor\"","url":"https://time.com/3773304/scary-lucille-ball-statue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74ab914c21e1ab85/698786f1e53aba1ee84d86f8/lucille-ball-statue.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74ab914c21e1ab85/698786f1e53aba1ee84d86f8/lucille-ball-statue.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lucille Ball Hometown Statue","caption":"Lucille Ball Hometown Statue","creditText":"The Post-Journal/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3773304/scary-lucille-ball-statue/","name":"Sculptor Behind 'Scary' Lucille Ball Statue Offers to Replace it for Free"}}]}] ```