The Washington Post’s Post

Dorothy Vogel and her husband, Herbert, kept art just about everywhere. In the closet. In the bathroom. Hanging from the ceiling. “We used every space available. We couldn’t even put another toothpick in. Then the National Gallery came to the rescue,” she once said of their unlikely collection, which was donated en masse to the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992. Mrs. Vogel died Nov. 10 at 90, more than a decade after her husband’s death. Together, the couple defied art-collector stereotypes while building one of the most significant groupings of minimalist and conceptual art in the world, eventually boasting more than 4,000 works. Time and time again, coverage of the Vogels returned, with awe, to the fact that they never sold pieces to turn a profit. Read more: https://wapo.st/43Jy8Hf