Anodyne
Sunday, April 13, 2008
 

They Knew What They Liked

"Herbert and Dorothy Vogel married in 1962. They are a diminutive couple, plain on the outside but complex and passionate once you make that first effort to shake hands and engage them in conversation. The Vogels don't loom large and showy like some collectors or shrink away, either, when the conversation turns serious. My own conversation with them began on a less-than-serious note. 'Have your cats [there are five] ever destroyed any of your artwork?' I asked Dorothy. 'No, but the fish have,' she replied. Dorothy has a way of answering the most ordinary questions in the least predictable way. She was a librarian. Her husband was a postal worker. They lived on his salary and bought art with hers. Both are now retired. They have no children. 'We bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment,' they say. Water from the fish tank once splashed a Warhol they owned. It later had to be restored."
- posted by cjb @ 12:08 AM


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