Nashville, Tenn.
A judge on Monday rejected an agreement to send a 1927 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe from Fisk University to a New Mexico museum, saying the deal wasn't in the best interests of the state of Tennessee.The painting, called "Radiator Building — Night, New York," was part of a 1949 gift to the school from the estate of O'Keeffe's husband, famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
The historically black university had agreed to send the painting to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe for $7.5 million and the right to sell another prominent painting on the open market.
But Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle said Monday that a rival offer from a new museum to be opened by the daughter of the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, offers better terms.
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