Two former professors have filed a complaint to block the sale of works of art by the University of Valparaiso, ART news reported.
The two professors who sued are Richard Brauer, the museum’s first director and namesake, and Philipp Brockington, a former professor at Valparaiso Law School who has an endowment named after him at the museum.
The fight involves the controversial planned sale of three valuable works of art from the museum’s permanent collection. The paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederic E. Church and Childe Hassam are estimated to have a collective value of $20 million.
The university says it needs to sell the paintings to renovate freshman dorms.
But teachers and many others say that the sale would break the rules on alienation.
