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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
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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
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, mostly of
minimalist
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and
conceptual
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art. Herbert Vogel died on July 22, 2012, in a
Manhattan
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nursing home
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.
Early years
Herbert Vogel, known as Herb, was the son of a Russian Jewish
garment worker
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from
Harlem
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.
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/ref> He never finished high school and, after serving in the U.S. Army
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during World War II
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, worked nights as a clerk sorting mail for the United States Postal Service
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until his retirement in 1979. Dorothy Faye Hoffman is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish
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stationery
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merchant
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from Elmira, New York
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. She received a bachelor's degree
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from Syracuse University
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and a master's degree
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, both in library science
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, and worked until her retirement in 1990 as a librarian
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for the Brooklyn Public Library
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.
Herbert and Dorothy married in 1962, a year after they met, in Elmira. Early in their marriage, they took painting classes at New York University
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, but later gave up painting in favor of collecting. They had no children, lived very frugally, and shared their living space with fish, turtles, and cats named after famous painters.
Early acquisitions
One of their earliest acquisitions was a work by Giuseppe Napoli that Herb bought before marrying Dorothy. They bought a ceramic piece by Pablo Picasso
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to celebrate their engagement. A piece called ''Crushed Car Parts'' by American sculptor
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John Chamberlain was their first post-wedding acquisition.
The couple used Dorothy's income to cover their living expenses and instead of eating in restaurants or travelling, they used Herb's income, which peaked at $23,000 annually, for art. They did not buy for investment purposes, choosing only pieces they personally liked and could carry home on the subway or in a taxi. They bought directly from the artists, often paying in installments. Once, according to ''The Washington Post
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'', they received a collage
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from environmental artist Christo
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in exchange for cat-sitting. In 1975, they held the first exhibition of their collection, at the Clocktower Gallery in lower Manhattan
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.
The collection
They amassed a collection of over 4,782 works, which they displayed, and also stored in closets and under the bed, in their rent-controlled one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan
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's Upper East Side
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. Though their focus was mainly conceptual art
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and minimalist art
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, the collection also includes noteworthy post-minimalist work. Their collection eventually came to include work from artists such as pop artist Roy Lichtenstein
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, photographers Cindy Sherman
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Her breakthrough work is often co ...
and Lorna Simpson
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, minimalist Robert Mangold
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and post-minimalist Richard Tuttle
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.
In 1992, the Vogels decided to transfer the entire collection to the National Gallery of Art
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because it charges no admission, does not sell donated works, and they wanted their art to belong to the public. In late 2008, they launched ''The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States'' along with the National Gallery of Art
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, the National Endowment for the Arts
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, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
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. The program donated 2,500 works to 50 institutions across 50 states and was accompanied by a book with the same name.
Documentaries
Megumi Sasaki has made two documentaries about the Vogels.
Released in 2008, '' Herb and Dorothy'' focused on the story of the Vogels, how they amassed their collection, and their donation of it to the National Gallery of Art. It won six awards at five different film festivals.
Released in 2013, ''Herb and Dorothy 50x50'' continued from when the previous documentary had ended, and concentrated on the distribution of fifty works from the collection to one museum in each of the fifty states within the U.S. as well as the role that the Vogels and some of the artists had in their exhibition.
Friendships with notable artists
The Vogels bought art from and became close friends with influential New York artists of the second half of the 20th century including Sol LeWitt
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LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
, Richard Tuttle
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, and many of the artists listed below.
List of recipient museums
The recipient museums of the Vogel Collection's Fifty Works for Fifty States program are:
* Alabama – Birmingham Museum of Art
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* Alaska – University of Alaska Museum of the North
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Mission
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* Arizona – Phoenix Art Museum
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* Arkansas – Arkansas Arts Center
* California – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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* Colorado – Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
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* Connecticut – Yale University Art Gallery
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* Delaware – Delaware Art Museum
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* Florida – Miami Art Museum
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* Georgia – High Museum of Art
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* Hawaii – Honolulu Museum of Art
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* Idaho – Boise Art Museum
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* Illinois – University Museum, Southern Illinois University
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* Indiana – Indianapolis Museum of Art
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* Iowa – Museum of Art Cedar Rapids
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* Kansas – Spencer Museum of Art
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* Kentucky – Speed Art Museum
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* Louisiana – New Orleans Museum of Art
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* Maine – Portland Museum of Art
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* Maryland – Academy Art Museum
* Massachusetts – Harvard Art Museums
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* Michigan – University of Michigan Museum of Art
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* Minnesota – Weisman Art Museum
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* Mississippi – Mississippi Museum of Art
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* Missouri – Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
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* Montana – Yellowstone Art Museum
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* Nebraska – Joslyn Art Museum
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* Nevada – Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
* New Hampshire – Hood Museum of Art
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* New Jersey – Montclair Art Museum
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* New Mexico – New Mexico Museum of Art
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* New York – Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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* North Carolina – Weatherspoon Art Museum
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* North Dakota – Plains Art Museum
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History
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* Ohio – Akron Art Museum
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* Oklahoma – Oklahoma City Museum of Art
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* Oregon – Portland Art Museum
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* Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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* South Carolina – Columbia Museum of Art
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History
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* South Dakota – South Dakota Art Museum
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* Tennessee – Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
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* Texas – Blanton Museum of Art
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* Utah – Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
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* Vermont – Robert Hull Fleming Museum
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* Virginia – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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* Washington – Seattle Art Museum
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* West Virginia – Huntington Museum of Art
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* Wisconsin – Milwaukee Art Museum
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* Wyoming – University of Wyoming
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List of artists
The artists included in the Vogels' gifts are:
* Gregory Amenoff
* Eric Amouyal
* William Anastasi
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* Joe Andoe
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* Carl Andre
Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary and wife, Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public art ...
* Stephen Antonakos
Stephen Antonakos ( el, Στυλιανός Αντωνάκος; November 1, 1926 in Agios Nikolaos, Laconia, Greece – August 17, 2013 in New York City) was a Greek born American sculptor most well known for his abstract sculptures often incorporat ...
* Richard Anuszkiewicz
Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (; May 23, 1930 – May 19, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
Life and work
Anuszkiewicz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Victoria (Jankowski) and Adam Anuszkiewicz, who worked in a pap ...
* Nancy Arlen
* Anne Arnold
* Richard Artschwager
Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26, 1923 – February 9, 2013) was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism.
Early life and art
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* Jo Baer
Josephine Gail Baer (born August 7, 1929) is an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turne ...
* Carel Balth
* Will Barnet
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* Robert Barry
* Zigi Ben-Haim
* Lynda Benglis
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* Joseph Beuys
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* James Bishop
* Ronald Bladen
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* Dike Blair
* William (Bill) Bollinger
* Gary Bower
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* Lisa Bradley
* Richmond Burton
* André Cadéré
* Loren Calaway
* Peter Campus
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* McWillie Chambers
* Ann Chernow
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* Chryssa
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* Michael Clark (Clark Fox)
* John Clem Clarke
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* Charles Clough Charles Clough may refer to:
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* Charles Clough (geologist)
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* Kathleen Cooke
* Peggy Cyphers
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* Gene Davis
* Claudia de Monte
* Stuart Diamond
* Lois Dodd
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See also
* 1992 in art
References
* National Gallery of Art, ''The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States'', Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 2008,
* Paoletti. John T., ''From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection'', Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1994,
Footnotes
External links
Vogel 50/50
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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American art collectors
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Jewish American art collectors
Women art collectors
Married couples