BlogBacks on Randolph College's Sale of Tamayo

This is a sad expedient for a college with such a distinguished legacy in the arts. A quick fix now and then in a couple years there will be reports about new financial and management problems. This sale will not solve the ongoing failure of leadership. The current and future students at Randolph College are being short changed.

Bravo for your Maier Museum/Tamayo column and your continuing opposition to such sales. The college's president and board of trustees continue to be inaccurate in their statements. One of the two suits on which the Virginia Supreme Court will rule soon (the breach of contract suit) is strictly about the coeducational issue and not the art. The other, however, the charitable trust suit, definitely involves the art (among other things) and the issues of donor intent.

I never knew Stephen Clark [the famed collector who donated the Tamayo to the Randolph College] but I've read much about him and his brother and I seriously question whether he intended for his gift of this great painting to the impressive permanent collection of a small women's college to end up on the block at Christie's.