Patronage: Herb & Dorothy, a Film by Megumi Sasaki June 17, 2010

Herb and Dorothy Vogel are legendary collectors who began purchasing the works of relatively unknown artists in the early 1960s. Contradicting the long held belief that only the wealthy can acquire significant art (Herb was a postal clerk and Dorothy a librarian), they built one of the great collections of Minimalist and Conceptual Art. Guided by their curiosity and ongoing dialogue with artists including Sol LeWitt, Richard Tuttle, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and many others, they filled their one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan with numerous contemporary masterworks.

Megumi Sasaki’s award winning 2009 documentary follows the couple as they visit artists and galleries, talking about their amazing journey of patronage. Stuart Horodner discusses their collecting strategies after the screening.

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