Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Herbert Vogel (1922–2012), spent most of his working life as a postman, and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), was a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. Setting their collecting priorities above those of personal comfort, the couple devoted Herbert’s salary to the acquisition of contemporary art. What they may have lacked in material wealth was more than matched by their knowledge and passion for art, their delight in discovering new work, and their commitment to particular artists whose work moved them.
In 2005 Herbert and Dorothy Vogel donated fifty works from their collection to fifty individual institutions across the United States. The UA Museum of the North was the lucky Alaskan recipient of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States gift.
VOGEL 50 x 50: Fifty Works for Alaska was on exhibit in the Collections Gallery from Winter 2014 – Summer 2015.
View a selection of artworks from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection below, and see all artworks by searching the Fine Arts collection in Arctos.
Selections from the Vogel Collection
Stewart Hitch, Schenevus, 1982, UA2009-012-011
Richard Tuttle, Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings - Box 12, Group 1, 1980-82, UA2009-012-046a
Ann Chernow, I Get Along With You Very Well, 1979, UA2009-012-003
Charles Clough, September Ninth, 1986, UA2009-012-005
Jene Highstein, Mystic Column, 1998, UA2009-012-010
Daryl Trivieri, Fish Dreamer, UA2009-012-042
Lori Taschler, Untitled, 1984, UA2009-012-038
Steve Keister, Untitled, 1988, UA2009-012-016
Joseph Nechvatal, Class of '82, 1982, UA2009-012-024
Lucio Pozzi, Gladiator, 1985, UA2009-012-031
Edda Renouf, Happy 1980, 1979, UA2009-012-032
Patrick Ireland, Untitled, 2002, UA2009-012-012
Robert Barry, Untitled, 1979, UA2009-012-001
Daryl Trivieri, The Child, 1985, UA2009-012-040
Richard Tuttle, Brown Lines, 1973, UA2009-012-044