A court in Nashville on Thursday approved a plan for Fisk University to sell a share of its historic 101-piece art collection for $30-million, putting an end to a fight that had been tied up in litigation for years, according to The New York Times. The plan’s completion follows the Tennessee Supreme Court’s decision in April to let stand a lower court’s ruling in favor of the historically black university. The state had opposed the sale, arguing that it would inhibit future donations by violating the stipulations of Georgia O’Keeffe, who gave the collection to the college in the 1940s and 1950s. The agreement gives the Crystal Bridges Museum, in Bentonville, Ark., the right to display the collection for two out of every four years.
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