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Herbert Vogel (August 16, 1922 – July 22, 2012) and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), once described as "proletarian art collectors," worked as civil servants in New York City for more than a half-century while amassing what has been called one of the most important post-1960s art collections in the United States, mostly of minimalist and conceptual art.
Herb, the impulsive Dionysian, searched for art “like a truffle hound,” said the artist Lucio Pozzi, who has more than 400 works in the Vogel collection. Dorothy, the Apollonian librarian with ...
Jan 19, 2017 · The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States can be viewed on a permanent exhibition website along with an extensive history of the Vogels themselves, whose life pursuit ...
Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary tale of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a seemingly ordinary couple who filled their humble one-bedroom New York apartment with more than 4,000 works of art over a ...
Apr 10, 2022 · HERB AND DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections ...
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Jul 23, 2012 · Herbert Vogel, pioneering collector, died yesterday from natural causes. He was 89. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Dorothy Faye Hoffman Vogel, with whom he collected mainly minimal and ...
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Civil servants by day and voracious collectors by night and weekend, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel built a world-class art collection through modest means. Committed to discovering new work by up-and-coming artists, the Vogels amassed a collection of more than 4,000 objects by some of the most renowned artists of our time over the course of four decades.
