Comment on Valparaiso University’s museum namesake calls sale of paintings to fund dorm renovations ‘a desperate action’

Valparaiso University’s museum namesake calls sale of paintings to fund dorm renovations ‘a desperate action’

In a strongly worded letter to Valparaiso University’s Board of Directors, Richard Brauer demanded his name be removed from the Brauer Museum of Art if any of three cornerstone paintings are sold to fund dorm renovations, and called the move to sell the paintings by José Padilla, the university’s president, a “desperate action by a desperate man.” “As I write this letter, I do not know the whereabouts or the condition of the three most valuable paintings that belong to the museum that bears my name.

 

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