Court Rules Fisk University Can't Sell Stake in O'Keeffe Collection

Despite a court ruling last summer which blocked Sante Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum from interfering with Nashville’s Fisk University‘s O’Keeffe collection that the artist herself had donated, the university is still having trouble getting any money for them, which was their original plan from the start. After trying to sell a joint stake in the collection to the Arkansas-based, Wal-Mart heiress-founded Bridges Museum for $30 million, a judge has blocked the transaction, saying it “does not meet the terms of the donation O’Keeffe made to the school in 1949” reports BusinessWeek.

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