As Controversy Over Deaccessioning Raged, Troubled Fisk University Sold Off Two Pieces Of Art

“When Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville, tried to sell two paintings several years ago from its storied Alfred Stieglitz art collection, a firestorm erupted. … [But] with the debate over the future of Fisk itself swirling around her, Hazel O’Leary, then the university’s president, on behalf of the school quietly sold off two other paintings owned by Fisk.”