Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Vogels

Howard Simon
Dorothy Vogel
ca. 1965-70
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


Richard Tuttle
Herbert Vogel
1974
painted wire
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - 7-sided Figure
1974
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Clock Tower
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Subway
1976
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Herbert Vogel - Balcony, 86th Street
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Metropolitan
1977
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Dorothy Alexander
Dorothy Vogel - Bloomingdale's
1979
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Clark
Collected Collector (Portrait of Herb)
ca. 1983
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Clark
Collected Collector II (Portrait of Dorothy)
ca. 1983
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel
1987
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daryl Trivieri
Herb Vogel - study portrait
1989
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daryl Trivieri
Dorothy Vogel - second study
1989
oil and acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Daryl Trivieri
Dorothy and Herb Vogel
1989
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Michael Lucero
Dorothy as pre-Columbian Figure
1990
glazed earthenware
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mariana Cook
Untitled (Portrait of Dorothy and Herb)
1999
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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)