A visitor walks among paintings, including Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Rust Red Hills” at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Indiana Friday February 10, 2023. Campus and community members continue to react to announcement of the pending sale of O’Keeffe’s and two other works to fund first-year student dorm renovations.
Though Padilla didn’t specify which artwork is pegged for sale, Dick Brauer, the museum’s founding director, and John Ruff, a senior research professor in the English department long affiliated with the museum, told the Post-Tribune the paintings are “Rust Red Hills,” perhaps the museum’s famous work, by Georgia O’Keeffe; Frederic E. Church’s “Mountain Landscape”; and “The Silver Vale and the Golden Gate” by Childe Hassam.
The most important thing, Vernon said, is that the student body be consistent in their response and not let up.For some, the email campaign is well underway. Teresa Blomquist of River Forest, Illinois, provided the Post-Tribune with an email she sent to Padilla about the sale. Her husband Robert is a retired VU law professor and her stepson Drew graduated from the university in 2006.The artwork, she wrote, is irreplaceable, and has put the university on a global stage.
“The City of Valparaiso supports Valparaiso University and President Padilla as they move forward with the current plan for resource reappropriation to attract and retain students to Valparaiso University — the only private, Division I university in the region,” Murphy said in an email. “We know this plan has not been made lightly, and the proposed renovations to the University’s freshman residence halls will be an immense asset to both the University and the City moving forward.
“The Student Senate was not involved in the decision making process, therefore without a more thorough knowledge of the issue, I am not able to give an answer as to what should have been done differently,” she said.
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