NASHVILLE—Attorneys for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico argued Tuesday that Fisk University in Nashville should forfeit the art collection O'Keeffe donated to the school in 1949 because it has violated conditions O'Keeffe set forth for the gift, the Associated Press reports. The museum and the school have been in a wrestling match over the 101-piece Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art for years, and Tuesday marked the opening day of the trial that will determine whether Fisk will keep the works. The museum contends Fisk went against stipulations that the collection be displayed intact, because the school has loaned works for traveling exhibitions, and the collection which includes O'Keeffe's famous 1927 Radiator Building Night, New York has been in storage at a Nashville museum for about two years. Fisk said the works are not on display because the university is trying to raise money to fix the Carl Van Vechten Gallery where they should be exhibited. The trial resumes today and Fisk said it will fight to keep the collection.

Fisk had been seeking to sell at least some of the works to fix its financial woes, but the plans have been contested each step by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. A judge recently struck down the school's proposal to sell half its share in the collection for $30 million to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which is being built in Bentonville, Ark., by founder and Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton.