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- Portraits of Herb and Dorothy Vogel
The Fifty Works for Fifty States project includes portraits of the Vogels by a wide variety of artists. Many of these were gifts from artists who became friends. The portraits range from completely abstract to photographic in detail, representing the range of the Vogel collection.
- Heather Campbell Coyle, Delaware Art Museum
The Vogel's Napkinian Fantasy
Collage
Artist and journalist Lil Picard produced Happenings, as well as installations, assemblages, and collages. This work combines photographs with the artist's drawings of the Vogels.
Study for the Vogels (Herb with hands on chin)
Drawing
This is a study for The Collectors, a drawing in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Along the right edge of the drawing, a slim rectangle indicates that the Vogels are examining a work of art. Especially around the eyes and eyebrows, the artist has captured Herb's intensity, as he leans toward the picture for a closer look. Dorothy appears more detached, standing back from the work, her gaze masked by glasses.
Study of Herb and Dorothy Vogel (Painting as a Study for a Larger Portrait of Herb and Dorothy Vogel)
Painting
The ovals that surround the portraits recall an open locket, lending a nostalgic, almost Victorian, atmosphere to this portrait.
Dorothy
Sculpture
Although the artist named this work for Dorothy Vogel, it isn't really a portrait. The Vogels had picked out the work before she gave it the title.
Dorothy
Collage
According to the artist, the painted grid represents "an abstraction of the vibe Dorothy was giving off to me at that time." For Dorothy, it could function as a traditional portrait, because a mirror is behind the grid. Dorothy preferred this abstract portrait to the figurative one the artist had produced, Collected Collector II (Portrait of Dorothy). Herb loved his more traditional portrait, and both figurative portraits are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
Untitled (Vogel living room drawn from memory)
Drawing
Though not a typical portrait, this vision of the Vogels' living room expresses a great deal about these committed collectors, who placed a Sol LeWitt sculpture where most people would have a coffee table. Works by Donald Judd and Richard Tuttle are also recognizable, as are the Vogels' four cats.