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| Howard Simon Dorothy Vogel ca. 1965-70 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Richard Tuttle Herbert Vogel 1974 painted wire National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dorothy Alexander Dorothy Vogel - 7-sided Figure 1974 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dorothy Alexander Dorothy Vogel - Clock Tower 1975 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dorothy Alexander Dorothy Vogel - Subway 1976 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dorothy Alexander Herbert Vogel - Balcony, 86th Street 1977 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dorothy Alexander Dorothy Vogel - Metropolitan 1977 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dorothy Alexander Dorothy Vogel - Bloomingdale's 1979 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Michael Clark Collected Collector (Portrait of Herb) ca. 1983 oil on linen National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Michael Clark Collected Collector II (Portrait of Dorothy) ca. 1983 oil on linen National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Herbert and Dorothy Vogel 1987 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Daryl Trivieri Herb Vogel - study portrait 1989 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Daryl Trivieri Dorothy Vogel - second study 1989 oil and acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Daryl Trivieri Dorothy and Herb Vogel 1989 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Michael Lucero Dorothy as pre-Columbian Figure 1990 glazed earthenware National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Mariana Cook Untitled (Portrait of Dorothy and Herb) 1999 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Lynda Benglis Herbert and Dorothy Vogel ca. 2002 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Improving My German
All my life I have been trying to improve my German.
At last my German is better!
But now I am old and ill.
I will die soon.
But when they take me to my grave,
I will have,
somewhere in my brain,
better German.
– Lydia Davis, from Into the Weeds (Yale University Press, 2025)
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