Herb & Dorothy

Herb & Dorothy

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Art Collector | Woman Director

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  • Genre(s): Documentary
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Megumi Sasaki
  • Cast(s): Charlie Rose, Mike Wallace, Michael Bloomberg, Lynda Benglis, Herbert Vogel See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 29min
  • Music: David Majzlin
  • Award(s): Chlotrudis 2010 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: Untold UK: Jamie Vardy, Marty, Life Is Short
  • Story:
    He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.
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STORY

Story
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.

AWARDS

Won
Chlotrudis Award

Best Documentary | 2010

Audience Award

Best Documentary | 2009 | Megumi

Documentaries | 2008 | Megumi

Documentary Film | 2008 | Megumi

Golden Starfish Award

Documentaries | 2008 | Megumi

TRIVIA

Trivia

Works from the National Gallery of Art, Vogel Collection, seen with on screen titles shown (artist name), in order of appearance: 1 - "Untitled, 1962" (John Chamberlain) 2 - "Floor Structure Black, 1965" (Sol LeWitt) 3 - "Four Paintings, 1978" (Robert Mangold) 4 - "X within Red/Green X, 1981" (Robert Mangold) 5 - "Four Color Frame Painting #1, 1984Robert Mangold) 6 - "49 Small Copper Cardinal, 1975" (Carl Andre) 7 - "Lead Pipe Cinch, 1970" (Carl Andre) 8 - "Untitled, 1968" (Donald Judd) 9 - "Untitled, 1965" (a) (Donald Judd) 10 - "Untitled, 1965" (b) (Donald Judd) 11 - "Starting with Four Colors, 1978" (Lucio Pozzi) 12 - "Study for Keith, 1970" (Chuck Close) 13 - "Collage of Valley Curtain, 1971" (Christo) 14 - "Drawing of The Gates, 1996" (Christo) 15 - "Art as Idea: Nothing, 1968" (Joseph Kosuth) 16 - "The Collectors, 1977" (Will Barnet) 17 - "Turn, 1965" (Richard Tuttle) 18 - "4th Summer Wood Piece, 1974" (Richard Tuttle) 19 - "Monkey's Recovery for a Darkened Room, 1983" (Richard Tuttle) 20 - "3rd Rope Piece, 1974" (Richard Tuttle) 21 - "Step Piece, 1970" (Vito Acconci) 22 - "Wall Drawing No. 681 C first installation, 1993" (Sol LeWitt)

Per the inventory of art works done for the National Gallery of Art, their collection included more than 4,782 works of art, collected over more than thirty years. After the donation to the National Gallery of Art and their 50 states, 50 works donation, they still continued to collect aggressively, in their 70s (Dorothy) and approaching age 90 (Herb).

Herbert Vogel and Dorothy Vogel were immortalized in a drawing called "The Collectors, 1977" by Will Barnet, which is part of the Vogel Collection given to the National Gallery of Art. The drawing is the artists representation of how Herb and Dorothy looked at art together.

Along with the copious art collection which hangs on their walls, hangs from their ceilings, is stacked on the floor, stacked under their bed, and propped against or behind furniture, Herbert Vogel and Dorothy Vogel also have a large animal menagerie in their small apartment, made up of several cats roaming freely, several large turtles in water filled aquariums, and tropical fish in another aquarium.

It took more than five full tractor trailer moving trucks to crate up and transport the Vogel's collection from Manhattan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. More than five full trucks to transport the artwork stored in a small Manhattan one bedroom apartment.