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Collectors' Stories


Herb and Dorothy Vogel: The Inspiring Story That Changed Contemporary Art Collecting
Herb and Dorothy Vogel were not wealthy collectors or art world insiders — he was a postal worker, she a librarian — yet they built one of the most important collections of contemporary art in American history. By living modestly and dedicating one salary entirely to buying works by emerging minimalist and conceptual artists, they amassed over 4,000 pieces that now belong to major museums across the United States.
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