Saturday, December 10, 2005


ok, so this via npr.org.... Fisk University plans to sell an iconic Georgia O'Keeffe painting donated by the artist in 1949. The sale, designed to raise money for the cash-strapped Nashville university, could break an O'Keeffe sale record of $6.3 million.

The sale of Radiator Building - Night, New York (1927) also may violate the terms of O'Keeffe's gift, which specified the modern art collection of her late husband Alfred Stieglitz not be broken up. Rebecca Bain of member station WPLN reports.........this is the trouble when gifts have strings attached......on the one hand there are o'keefe's wishes that her collection stay together....and then there is fisk, which is cashstrapped.....enough to part with something so valuable.....maybe some rich person could buy it from fisk, and donate it back.....for the tax break if for no better reason........ Posted by Picasa

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