{"id":25747,"date":"2025-09-03T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25747"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:52:12","slug":"the-art-of-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-art-of-collecting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e5e5e5&amp;d=september_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=26&amp;themeSecondaryColor=%23f2f2f2&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Maine Artists at Auction 2025<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">COMPILED BY AUDREY ESTEVES<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Katz, Wyeth, O\u2019Keeffe\u2026 Bradford,<br \/>\nPeterson, and Wittenberg. This year\u2019s selection of extraordinary auction results is a fresh mix of household names with contemporary artists whose hammer value is also on the rise. Significantly, collectors are identifying and purchasing works produced by women artists. Here\u2019s a taste of what Maine has to offer the art auction world from the usual <i>and<\/i> some unusual suspects.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/auction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/auction.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/auction-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/auction-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Artists at Auction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1499],"class_list":["post-25747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-september-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25750,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25747\/revisions\/25750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}