Fisk University Gets the Go Ahead to Sell Stake in O'Keeffe Collection, With Conditions

After more than a year of battling both estates and the government, Fisk University have gotten an official okay to sell off a stake in their large collection of Georgia O’Keefe paintings to help them pay off debts. Well, sort of. While earlier this year the school had tried selling off half the collection, in something of a shared/borrowing agreement with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, a judge had struck the deal down, saying it violated O’Keefe’s wishes in her original donation of the collection, though the government was open to hearing more ideas if the university had any.