Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Court says New Mexico museum has no standing in Fisk case

Fisk University doesn’t have to give up 101 art works donated by painter Georgia O’Keeffe to a New Mexico museum in her name, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled in a decision filed Tuesday. The ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that barred Fisk from selling paintings to an Arkansas museum. The case now goes back to Davidson County Chancery Court. The school has been trying to sell part or all of the 101-piece Alfred Stieglitz Collection for more than three years in order to rebuild financially after raiding its endowment and nearly shutting its doors. O’Keeffe donated the collection to the school in 1949...Tennessean

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