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Portland Museum of Art receives photography collection that ‘puts us at another level’
The Portland Museum of Artwork has obtained a collection of far more than 600 pictures, including operates by entire world-popular 20th-century photographers, that the museum believes will rework it into a location for the artwork variety. The present from photographer, philanthropist and collector Judy Glickman Lauder includes photos by Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White and Gordon Parks. “This collection puts us at another stage,” explained Mark Bessire, museum director. “We’ve generally done (images), but this just leverages the work we are carrying out and lets us consider off. This (collection) could have gone anywhere, but it’s coming below.” Glickman Lauder, who could not be arrived at for an…