Dorothy and Herbert Vogel papers
name: label: Creator
content: Vogel, Dorothy
label: Creator
content: Vogel, Herbert
label: Names
content: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
label: Names
content: Andre, Carl, 1935-
label: Names
content: Antonakos, Stephen, 1926-2013
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content: Artschwager, Richard, 1923-
label: Names
content: Aycock, Alice
label: Names
content: Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
label: Names
content: Bochner, Mel, 1940-
label: Names
content: Cadere, André, 1934-1978
label: Names
content: Chernow, Ann, 1936-
label: Names
content: Christo, 1935-
label: Names
content: Cyphers, Peggy, 1954-
label: Names
content: DeMonte, Claudia, 1947-
label: Names
content: Francisco, Richard, 1942-
label: Names
content: Graham, Dan, 1942-
label: Names
content: Groth, Jan, 1938-
label: Names
content: Hazlitt, Don, 1948-
label: Names
content: Highstein, Jene, 1942-2013
label: Names
content: Jean-Claude, Martha, 1919-2001
label: Names
content: Kawara, On
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content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
label: Names
content: Mangold, Robert, 1937-
label: Names
content: Mangold, Sylvia Plimack, 1938-
label: Names
content: Pozzi, Lucio, 1935-
label: Names
content: Renouf, Edda
label: Names
content: Ryman, Robert, 1930-
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content: Schultz, Barbara
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content: Seawright, Sandy
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content: Tabler, Bernadine
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content: Taschler, Lori, 1959-
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content: Tuttle, Richard, 1941-
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content: Umlauf, Lynn
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Women art dealers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel donated their papers in several accretions from 1980 to 2009 and lent three notebooks for microfilming in 1982.
creator: label: Creator
content: Vogel, Dorothy
label: Creator
content: Vogel, Herbert
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content: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of contemporary art collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel measure 47.5 linear feet and date from the 1960s to 2009. Found is scattered general correspondence, artists' files, subject files, business records, and printed material relating to the Vogel Collection. Artists' and subject files create the bulk of the collection, the majority of which is printed material but includes some correspondence from artists.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dorothy (1935- ) and Herbert Vogel (1922-2012) were contemporary art collectors in New York City, New York.  The middle-class couple bought and collected art for forty-five years and amassed an extensive collection.  

A life-long New Yorker, Herbert Vogel was born in 1922 and dropped out of school to work in a garment factory.  After joining the U.S. Army, Vogel became a postal clerk and began to frequent Greenwich Village's Cedar Bar, a popular bar of the arts crowd. Vogel developed a deep appreciation for art and for the artists themselves. 

In 1960, he met librarian Dorothy Faye Hoffman and they quickly fell in love.  During their honeymoon, they visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.  Dorothy and Herb's first purchase was a sculpture by John Chamberlain.  On their civil servant salary, the Vogels continued to collect and purchase art, beginning with young artists of the 1960s and 1970s while bypassing the dealer system of the New York City art scene.  The result was a collection of 5,000 pieces which had to fit in their one-bedroom apartment.  

In 1992, the Vogels donated the bulk of their collection to the National Gallery of Art, with fifty pieces intended to go to a museum or institution in each of the United States.  Herbert Vogel died in 2012 in Manhattan and is survived by Dorothy.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 47.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960s-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.vogedoro
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 5 series:

Series 1: Correspondence, 1971-1987 (0.3 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Artists' Files, 1963-2009 (30.4 linear feet; Boxes 1-31)

Series 3: Subject Files, 1969-2008 (9.8 linear feet; Boxes 31-41)

Series 4: Vogel Collection Business Records, 1974-1988 (0.3 linear feet; Box 41)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1960s-2000s (6.7 linear feet; Boxes 41-47, OV48-58)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed to a minimal level and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2015, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund. The Archives of American Art has implemented minimal processing tactics when possible in order to increase information about and access to more of our collections.

Minimal processing included arrangement to the series, subseries, and folder levels. Generally, items within folders were simply verified with folder titles, but not arranged further. The collection was rehoused in archival containers and folders, but not all staples and clips were removed.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reel 2435 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of contemporary art collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel measure 47.5 linear feet and date from the 1960s to 2009. Found is scattered general correspondence, artists' files, subject files, business records, and printed material relating to the Vogel Collection. Artists' and subject files create the bulk of the collection, the majority of which is printed material but includes some correspondence from artists.  

Scattered general correspondence is with friends, acquaintances, and corporate entities.  

Files for artists represented in the Vogel Collection include Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Richard Artschwager, Alice Aycock, Will Barnet, Mel Bochner, Andre Cadere, Ann Chernow, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Peggy Cyphers, Claudia DeMonte, Richard Francisco, Dan Graham, Jan Groth, Don Hazlitt, Jene Highstein, On Kawara, Sol Lewitt, Sylvia and Robert Mangold, Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, Robert Ryman, Barbara Schultz, Lori Taschler, Richard Tuttle, and Lynn Umlauf among many others. Materials within artists' files may include printed material, correspondence, writings and notes, and scattered business records.

Subject files are found for Dorothy and Herbert Vogel's friends and colleagues within the art world including art historians, writers, gallerists, dealers, and collectors.  Extensive letters are from Sandy Seawright and Bernadine Tabler.  Exhibition related materials are found among the files. 

Scattered business records of the Vogel Collection document exhibitions of the collection at U.S. institutions and at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld Museum in Germany. 

Printed materials include clippings, posters, and exhibition catalogs and announcements.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reel 2435) including three notebooks containing clippings, articles, press releases, exhibition catalogs and announcements. Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.