Boston Globe: At the Portland Museum of Art, the gift of ‘Presence’

The museum celebrates a key photographic acquisition with options from the selection of Judy Glickman Lauder

By Mark Feeney Globe Staff
Updated November 15, 2022, 2:49 p.m.

This short article at first appears in the Boston World.

Richard Avedon, “Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D’Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan,night attire by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim’s, Paris, August 1959.” RICHARD AVEDON/PORTLAND MUSEUM OF Art, MAINE, JUDY GLICKMAN LAUDER Assortment. © THE RICHARD AVEDON Foundation

PORTLAND — The top quality and wide variety of the pictures in any provided selection ascertain regardless of whether the assortment is worth searching at. That’s really clear. What’s considerably less apparent is that the character of the collector determines irrespective of whether that collection is value considering about. It is just one detail to seem at shots when they are in front of you. It’s rather a different to …