"Dorothy Vogel, one half of the husband-and-wife pair who became famous for building their impressive art collection while working as a postal worker and a librarian, respectively, died on November 10. Vogel died at 90 in a hospital in New York, according to the Washington Post. With her husband Herbert, she appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year between 1990, when the list was first published, and 2000."
"Dorothy Vogel was born in 1935 in Elmira, New York. She met Herbert, a native New Yorker, in 1960, at which point she was working as a librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library system. (Herbert, a postal clerk, died in 2012 at age 89.) They immediately started collecting Minimalist and conceptual art-works on paper, paintings, and sculptures-by artists like Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Christo, Richard Tuttle, Lynda Benglis, and Pat Steir."
Dorothy Vogel was born in 1935 in Elmira, New York, and met Herbert in 1960 while working as a Brooklyn Public Library librarian. Herbert worked as a postal clerk and together they collected Minimalist and conceptual works by artists including Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and others. The collection was housed in their one-bedroom rent-controlled Upper East Side apartment, and works were never sold. The Vogels owned thousands of works, purchased largely with Herbert’s salary, and announced a donation of their collection to the National Gallery of Art. Dorothy Vogel died at age 90 on November 10.
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