In a story about Fisk University’s legal pursuit of the right to share its collection with Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, blogger Culture Grrrl (Lee Rosenbaum) reports that the chief operating officer of the High Museum in Atlanta tells her the museum is also in talks with Crystal Bridges about a collection-sharing arrangement. The High’s collection of 900 works of art from 19th and 20th century America includes works by William Merritt Chase, Ben Shahn, Georgia O’Keeffe and John Singer Sargeant and, above, John Steuart Curry (“John Brown”).
Walton has sought other collection-sharing deals, most publicly with Fisk, in Nashville. Crystal Bridges has offered Fisk $30 million for a half ownership in its Stieglitz Collection, and Fisk recently filed a motion in a Tennessee chancery court asking that it be allowed to deviate from donor Georgia O’Keeffe’s instructions that Stieglitz Collection not be sold so it can take advantage of the offer.
Will the Walton reward the High Museum with millions to bring more art to Bentonville? The High hasn’t returned a call. Will update when it does.
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