Vogel, Herbert

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role

Collector

dates

1922-2012

city

New York City

state

NY

sex

M

historical notes

Herbert “Herb” “Herby” Vogel a post office clerk who together with his librarian wife, Dorothy Vogel, amassed a vast collection of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculpture.

The Vogel collection includes work by more than 170 contemporary artists such as, Will Barnet (b. 1911), Robert Barry (b. 1936), Lynda Benglis (b. 1941), Dan Graham (b. 1942), Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), Edda Renouf (b. 1943), Pat Steir (b. 1940), and Richard Tuttle (b. 1941).

The couple made their first purchase, a sculpture by John chamberlain, the year they married, 1962. Although they have donated/promised 1,100 works of art from their collection to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC., more works of art are gifted to a 50 x 50 project (50 works of art in 50 states) the couple continues to collect.

decades
of activity

1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-2010

website

http://www.herbanddorothy.com

updated

10/31/2024 13:33:18

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Dorothy and Herbert Vogel papers, 1960s-2009	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Artist file: Vogel, Herbert; miscellaneous uncataloged material.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	The Louis K. Meisel Gallery selected records, 1964-2003	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Collectors of the 1970s [videorecording] : the video interviews / [produced by] Institute for Art and Urban Resources ; [funded by] New York State Council on the Arts.	see details...
National Gallery of Art, Library 2000B South Club Drive	Many things placed here & there: the story of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel : the librarian and the postal worker who amassed one of the world's great collections of art : a memoir proposal / by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel; with Theodore Bouloukos.	see details...