Brian Boucher, Donor Family Outraged That Pennsylvania College Is Quietly Selling Its Art, ArtNet, 23 May 2025
The gallery’s holdings feature major figures like Romare Bearden and Jasper Johns. The daughters of namesake supporter Doris C. Freedman are scandalized.
When art preparator Rich Houck showed up to his part-time job on April 17 at the Freedman Gallery at Albright College, in Reading, Pennsylvania, he found the storage space mostly emptied out, racks vacant, the room left in disarray. He knew that the college was planning to sell the collection to raise funds, but no one had notified him that the works would actually be moved. Which works had been taken? Where? By whom?
