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...distributed to the large American museums that could be counted on to secure his reputation. But a sizable part of his art collection O'Keeffe deposited in a less predictable place. At the urging of a friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten, she gave 97 works to Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville. And she threw in a few of her own. One of those was Radiator Building-- Night, New York, 1927, a painting we now recognize as a key moment in her career...
Years passed, during which Fisk's endowment dwindled while the art market went into warp drive. In 2005 the school's president, Hazel O'Leary, came up with an idea that could not only pay to renovate the frayed campus gallery where the Stieglitz Collection has languished but also pump millions of dollars into Fisk's general budget. Why not sell off just a bit of that famous art? But when the school moved to bring Radiator Building to market, it triggered what became a lawsuit by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which moved to block...
...wrestlers in Ogunwole after an elbow injury forced the heavyweight to the sidelines. The Mountain Hawks, which improved to 11-6 overall and 4-1 in the conference, dealt Harvard its fifth straight loss in dual matches, winning five bouts and recording three falls against Crimson wrestlers. Matt Fisk of Lehigh pinned Fitzgerald in 47 seconds to start the day, but Harvard answered with wins by Preston, Meltzer, and O’Connor. Preston, who rejoined the team after taking the fall semester off, defeated Seth Ciasulli in a 4-2 decision, while No. 15 Meltzer followed with...
...self-reproach spilled over when Coretta underwent surgery for an abdominal tumor on Jan. 24. He disclosed to her the one mistress who meant most to him since 1963--with intensity almost like a second family even though she lived in Los Angeles--a married alumna of Fisk, of dignified bearing like Coretta, but different. The result was painful disaster. On hearing the news, Juanita Abernathy, SCLC co-founder Ralph Abernathy's wife, exploded with the fury of a trusted second that King had picked Coretta's most vulnerable moment, just as she recovered from her hysterectomy, to ambush...
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