June 29, 2007

Judge Says Fisk U. Can't Sell Paintings

By AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE

Fisk University's plans to sell two 20th-century paintings worth millions of dollars and use the proceeds for financial and academic improvements hit a new roadblock when a Tennessee judge said the Nashville institution could not sell them.

In fact, the judge, Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle of the Davidson County Chancery Court, said in a court order earlier this month that the university could not sell any of the 101 pieces of artwork in a collection that the artist Georgia O'Keeffe gave

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