A request for declaratory and injunctive relief and a motion for a temporary restraining order are being filed on behalf of Richard Brauer, the museum’s first director and curator and for whom the museum is named, and Philipp Brockington, a retired Valparaiso University law school professor who is a benefactor to the museum.“We are confident that Percy Sloan never envisioned using artwork proceeds to renovate dormitories and the only question the court will have to answer is whether Mr.
In a late February email to the Post-Tribune, a university spokesperson said officials explored other funding options but the deaccession of the artwork provides the necessary money to move forward with the renovations on a timeline that works best for the university. Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Rust Red Hills” seen through Richard Hunt’s stainless steel “Becoming” at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Indiana Friday February 10, 2023.
“For Valparaiso University’s Museum of Art to have my name has conferred a high honor on me, but with this sale it will wrongly reflect my approval of its utterly disgraceful, irreparably existentially diminishing, unethical and seemingly unnecessary, museum art collection sale actions!” Brauer wrote.