Appeals Court Overturns Ruling Over Fisk University's Sale of Georgia O'Keeffe Collection

The first many people, including us, had heard of the now-open Crystal Bridges Museum was way back in early 2009 when controversy erupted over Fisk University‘s efforts in trying to sell off its large collection of famous and valuable paintings, donated by Georgia O’Keeffe, to WalMart heiress Alice Walton‘s new museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. Over the next two years, there was lots of back and forth, where they’d get the go ahead, only to be pushed back by courts or Tennessee’s attorney general, and then start all over again with new plans to help the cash-strapped school unload its treasures.