Herbert Vogel and Dorothy Vogel (born 1935) are American art collectors. Herbert Vogel was the son of a Russian Jewish garment worker from Harlem

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

. He never finished high school and worked as a clerk for the United States Postal Service

United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...

 until retiring in 1980. Dorothy Faye Hoffmann was the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish stationary merchant from Elmira, New York

Elmira, New York

Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, USA. It is the principal city of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses Chemung County, New York. The population was 29,200 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Chemung County.The City of Elmira is located in...

. She holds a masters degree and worked as a librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

The Brooklyn Public Library is the public library system of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is the fifth largest public library system in the United States. Like the two other public library systems in New York City, it is an independent nonprofit organization that is funded by the...

. Herbert and Dorothy married in 1962 in Elmira, New York. Early in their marriage, they both took painting classes at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 and rented a studio at Union Square, but gave up painting in favor of collecting.

Together they built a large and impressive contemporary art collection on their modest incomes. Dorothy's income covered their living expenses and they used Herb's income to buy art. Though their focus is conceptual art

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

 and minimalist art, the collection also includes noteworthy post-minimalist work. They amassed a collection of over 4,782 works, which they kept in their one-bedroom rent-controlled

Rent control

Rent control refers to laws or ordinances that set price controls on the renting of residential housing. It functions as a price ceiling.Rent control exists in approximately 40 countries around the world...

 New York City apartment. In 1992, they decided to transfer the entire collection to the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

. More recently, in late 2008, they launched The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States along with the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

, the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to "create strong libraries and museums that connect...

. The program donated 2,500 works to 50 institutions across 50 states and was accompanied by a book with the same name. In 2008, an award-winning documentary about their story, Herb and Dorothy

Herb and Dorothy

Herb and Dorothy is a documentary film by Megumi Sasaki. The film tells the story of two middle-class collectors of contemporary art, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, and the enormous and valuable collection of conceptual art and minimalist art they amassed...

, was released.

Early acquisitions

One of their earliest acquisitions was a work by Guiseppi Napoli that Herb actually bought before marrying Dorothy. They bought a ceramic piece by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 to celebrate their engagement. A piece by John Chamberlain was one of the first acquisitions after their marriage.

Friendships with notable artists

The Vogels bought art from and became close friends with influential New York artists of the second half of the 20th Century including Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....

, Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle

Richard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...

, and many of the artists listed below.

List of recipient museums

The recipient museums of the Vogel Collection's Fifty Works for Fifty States program are:

• Alabama – Birmingham Museum of Art
  Birmingham Museum of Art
  Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
  
  
• Alaska – University of Alaska Museum of the North
  University of Alaska Museum of the North
  The University of Alaska Museum of the North is housed on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.-Mission:The museum's mission is to acquire, conserve, investigate, and interpret specimens and collections relating to the natural, artistic, and cultural heritage of Alaska and the Circumpolar North...
  
  
• Arizona – Phoenix Art Museum
  Phoenix art museum
  The Phoenix Art Museum is the Southwest United States' largest art museum for visual art. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum is . It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western...
  
  
• Arkansas – Arkansas Arts Center
  Arkansas Arts Center
  One of the leading cultural institutions in the state, the Arkansas Arts Center is located on the corner of 9th and Commerce streets in MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. The Arkansas Arts Center was founded in 1960, but the idea began in 1914, when the Fine Arts Club of Arkansas formed...
  
  
• California – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
  
  
• Colorado – Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
  Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
  The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is an arts center located just north of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located on the same city block are the American Numismatic Association and part of the campus of Colorado College....
  
  
• Connecticut – Yale University Art Gallery
  Yale University Art Gallery
  The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting,...
  
  
• Delaware – Delaware Art Museum
  Delaware Art Museum
  The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 works. The museum, was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artist Howard Pyle and is now celebrating its centennial...
  
  
• Florida – Miami Art Museum
  Miami Art Museum
  The Miami Art Museum is an art museum located in Downtown Miami, Florida, in the United States. It was founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, and in 1996 became the Miami Art Museum...
  
  
• Georgia – High Museum of Art
  High Museum of Art
  The High Museum of Art , located in Atlanta, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States and one of the most-visited art museums in the world. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.-History:The Museum was...
  
  

• Hawaii – Honolulu Academy of Arts
  Honolulu Academy of Arts
  The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...
  
  
• Idaho – Boise Art Museum
• Illinois – University Museum, Southern Illinois University
  Southern Illinois University
  Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...
  
  
• Indiana – Indianapolis Museum of Art
  Indianapolis Museum of Art
  The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The museum, which underwent a $74 million expansion in 2005, is located on a campus on the near northwest area outside downtown Indianapolis, northwest of Crown Hill Cemetery.The...
  
  
• Iowa – Museum of Art Cedar Rapids
  Museum of Art Cedar Rapids
  The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is a museum in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. The museum is privately owned and was established in 1905 The museum acquired the old Cedar Rapids Public Library building after the library moved into a new location in 1980...
  
  
• Kansas – Spencer Museum of Art
  Spencer Museum of Art
  The Spencer Museum of Art, or SMA, is an art museum on the campus of University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. While admission is free, donations are accepted. Also located inside the Spencer Museum of Art are the Kress Foundation Department of Art History, and the Murphy Library of Art &...
  
  
• Kentucky – Speed Art Museum
  Speed Art Museum
  The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest, largest, and foremost museum of art in Kentucky...
  
  
• Louisiana – New Orleans Museum of Art
  New Orleans Museum of Art
  The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line...
  
  
• Maine – Portland Museum of Art
  Portland Museum of Art
  The Portland Museum of Art is an art museum in Portland, Maine. Founded as the Portland Society of Art in 1882, it is located in the downtown area known as The Arts District, and is the largest and oldest public art institution in the U.S...
  
  
• Maryland – Academy Art Museum

• Massachusetts – Harvard Art Museums
• Michigan – University of Michigan Museum of Art
  University of Michigan Museum of Art
  The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA in Ann Arbor, Michigan with is one of the largest university art museums in the USA. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall originally housed U-M's Alumni office along with the...
  
  
• Minnesota – Weisman Art Museum
  Weisman Art Museum
  The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry...
  
  
• Mississippi – Mississippi Museum of Art
• Missouri – Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
• Montana – Yellowstone Art Museum
  Yellowstone Art Museum
  The Yellowstone Art Museum in downtown Billings, Montana is the largest museum in the region .Visitors are welcomed by a rotating spoon called "Will He Drill" at the museum lobby. The old Yellowstone county prison was transformed into the art museum in 1964 and was expanded several times...
  
  
• Nebraska – Joslyn Art Museum
  Joslyn Art Museum
  The Joslyn Art Museum is the principal fine arts museum in the state of Nebraska, United States of America. Located in Omaha, it is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection...
  
  
• Nevada – Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery
• New Hampshire – Hood Museum of Art
  Hood Museum of Art
  The Hood Museum of Art is a museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. It...
  
  
• New Jersey – Montclair Art Museum
  Montclair Art Museum
  The Montclair Art Museum is located in Montclair, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.-Collection:The Montclair Art Museum is one of the few museums in the United States devoted to American art and Native American art forms. The collection consists of more than 12,000 works...
  
  

• New Mexico – New Mexico Museum of Art
  New Mexico Museum of Art
  The New Mexico Museum of Art , the oldest art museum in the state of New Mexico, is one of four state-run museums in Santa Fe...
  
  
• New York – Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...
  
  
• North Carolina – Weatherspoon Art Museum
  Weatherspoon Art Museum
  The Weatherspoon Art Museum is located at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art in the southeast with a focus on American art. Its programming includes fifteen or more exhibitions per year, year-round educational...
  
  
• North Dakota – Plains Art Museum
  Plains Art Museum
  The Plains Art Museum is a fine arts museum located in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, United States.- History :The history of the museum dates back to 1965 when the "Red River Art Center" opened in the former Moorhead, Minnesota, post office. The name of the museum was changed when it was...
  
  
• Ohio – Akron Art Museum
  Akron Art Museum
  The Akron Art Museum is an art museum in Akron, Ohio, USA.The museum first opened its doors on February 1, 1922, as the Akron Art Institute. It was located in two borrowed rooms in the basement of the public library...
  
  
• Oklahoma – Oklahoma City Museum of Art
  Oklahoma City Museum of Art
  The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is a museum located in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. The museum features visiting exhibits; original selections from its own collection; a theater showing a variety of foreign, independent, and classic films each week;...
  
  
• Oregon – Portland Art Museum
  Portland Art Museum
  The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...
  
  
• Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the oldest art museum and school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th and 20th century American paintings,...
  
  
• Rhode Island – Rhode Island School of Design Museum
  Rhode Island School of Design Museum
  Rhode Island School of Design Museum is a prominent art museum in Providence, Rhode Island affiliated with the well-known Rhode Island School of Design...
  
  
• South Carolina – Columbia Museum of Art
  Columbia Museum of Art
  The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina has a collection of European and American fine and decorative art that spans several centuries...
  
  

• South Dakota – South Dakota Art Museum
• Tennessee – Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
  Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
  Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. The museum is a privately funded nonprofit institution located in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis.The original...
  
  
• Texas – Blanton Museum of Art
  Blanton Museum of Art
  The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art is the art museum and research center of the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly under the College of Fine Arts, the museum director now reports to the University's...
  
  
• Utah – Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
  Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
  The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is a large museum on the campus of Utah State University in Logan, Utah, and a constituent of the Caine College of the Arts at USU. The museum, which holds one of the largest collections in the entire Intermountain West with over 4,800 pieces, focuses largely...
  
  
• Vermont – Robert Hull Fleming Museum
  Robert Hull Fleming Museum
  The Robert Hull Fleming Museum is a museum of art and anthropology located at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. The museum's collection includes some 25,000 objects from a wide variety of times and places....
  
  
• Virginia – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or VMFA, is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, which opened in 1936.The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, while private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all...
  
  
• Washington – Seattle Art Museum
  Seattle Art Museum
  The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on...
  
  
• West Virginia – Huntington Museum of Art
  Huntington Museum of Art
  The Huntington Museum of Art is an art museum located in the hills above Ritter Park in Huntington, West Virginia. It is the largest art museum between "Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Richmond" and contains numerous collections, exhibitions, education programs and nature trails that sprawl on a campus...
  
  
• Wisconsin – Milwaukee Art Museum
  Milwaukee Art Museum
  The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no facilities to hold major art exhibitions...
  
  
• Wyoming – University of Wyoming
  University of Wyoming
  The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...
  
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List of artists

The artists included in the Vogels' gifts are:

• Gregory Amenoff
• Eric Amouyal
• William Anastasi
  William Anastasi
  William Anastasi is an American painter and visual artist. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1960s...
  
  
• Joe Andoe
• Carl Andre
  Carl Andre
  Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American...
  
  
• Stephen Antonakos
• Richard Anuszkiewicz
  Richard Anuszkiewicz
  Richard Anuszkiewicz is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Life and work:Richard Anuszkiewicz trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio , and then with Josef Albers at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut where he earned his...
  
  
• Nancy Arlen
• Anne Arnold
• Richard Artschwager
  Richard Artschwager
  Richard Artschwager is an American painter, illustrator and sculptor, born in 1923 in Washington, D.C.. Artschwager is best known for his stylistic independence; although he has associations with the Pop Art movement, Conceptual art and Minimalism....
  
  
• Jo Baer
  Jo Baer
  Josephine Gail "Jo" Baer, born Josephine Kleinberg August 7, 1929, is an American artist, whose works are associated with minimalist art...
  
  
• Carel Balth
  Carel Balth
  Carel Balth is a Dutch artist and curator. His work is characterised by the innovative use of new media, where a synthesis of light, motion and space occupies a central position and where new means of perception are investigated...
  
  
• Will Barnet
  Will Barnet
  Will Barnet is an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.-Biography:...
  
  
• Robert Barry
  Robert Barry (artist)
  Robert Barry is an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media...
  
  
• Zigi Ben-Haim
  Zigi Ben-Haim
  Zigi Ben-Haim is an American-Jewish sculptor and painter who lives and works in New York and Israel. He grew up in Israel and studied at The Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel-Aviv from 1966 to 1970. After he moved to the United States, he went to California College of Arts & Crafts in 1971 and...
  
  
• Lynda Benglis
  Lynda Benglis
  Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today...
  
  
• Joseph Beuys
  Joseph Beuys
  Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...
  
  
• James Bishop
• Ronald Bladen
• Dike Blair
  Dike Blair
  Dike Blair is an American artist.He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an M.F.A., in 1977.He lives in New York City.-Exhibitions:*2010 Gagosian Gallery, New York...
  
  
• William (Bill) Bollinger
• Gary Bower
• Lisa Bradley
  Lisa Bradley
  Lisa Bradley is an American artist who has been exhibiting for over thirty years at galleries and museums in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Paris, Helsinki, Tokyo, Brussels and Dakar....
  
  
• Richmond Burton
• André Cadéré
• Loren Calaway
• Peter Campus
  Peter Campus
  Peter Campus, is an American born artist, known for his pioneering interactive and single channel video work of the early 1970s, alongside an extensive body of photographic and digital video works to the present day...
  
  
• McWillie Chambers
• Ann Chernow
• Chryssa
  Chryssa
  Chryssa Vardea Mavromichali is a Greek American artist who works in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally...
  
  
• Michael Clark (Clark Fox)
• John Clem Clarke
• Charles Clough
  Charles Clough
  Charles Sidney Clough is an American painter. His art has been exhibited in over 60 solo and over 150 group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe and is included in the permanent collections of over 70 museums.-Early life and education:Charles Clough was born and raised in Buffalo, New...
  
  
• Kathleen Cooke
• Peggy Cyphers
• Gene Davis
  Gene Davis (painter)
  Gene Davis was an American painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color, and was a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s known as the Washington Color School....
  
  
• Claudia de Monte
• Stuart Diamond
• Lois Dodd
  Lois Dodd
  Lois Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927. She was educated at the Cooper Union in New York City from 1945-48. She is an abstract expressionist painter. She was the only woman founder of the Tanager Gallery, which was integral to the Tenth Street-avant-garde scene of the 1950s where...
  
  
• Koki Doktori
• Rackstraw Downes
  Rackstraw Downes
  Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. His oil paintings are notable for their meticulous detail accumulated during months of plein-air sessions, depictions of industry and the environment, and elongated compositions with complex perspective.-Education:Born Rodney Harry...
  
  
• Robert Duran
• Benni Efrat
  Benni Efrat
  Benni Efrat is an Israeli painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker who was born in Beirut. He immigrated to Israel in 1947. From 1959 to 1961, he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkel Streichman .From 1966 to 1976, he lived in London, where he studied at...
  
  
• William Fares

• R.M. Fischer
• Joel Fisher
• Richard Francisco
• Adam Fuss
  Adam Fuss
  Adam Fuss is a British photographer.-Early life:Adam Fuss was born in England in 1961. His father manufactured woman’s coats and his mother was an Australian fashion model. Fuss’s father suffered a stroke in 1963 and required constant care until his death in 1968. Fuss lived in Australia with...
  
  
• Charles Gaines
• Pinchas Cohen Gan
  Pinchas Cohen Gan
  Pinchas Cohen Gan is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist.-Biography:Pinhas Cohen Gan was born in Meknes, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel in 1949...
  
  
• Dixie Friend Gay
  Dixie Friend Gay
  Dixie Friend Gay is a U.S. visual artist who works in a variety of media and is noted for work that explores the power of nature.She was born as Dixie Friend in Oklahoma and raised on a cattle ranch. She taught art for three years at a rural school before moving to the East Coast. In 1989 she...
  
  
• Jon Gibson
• David Gilhooly
  David Gilhooly
  David Gilhooly, also known as David James Gilhooly III, is an American ceramicist and printmaker, born in Auburn, California in 1943.He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a BA in 1965 and an MA in 1967...
  
  
• Michael Goldberg
  Michael Goldberg
  Michael Goldberg was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings. His work was recently seen in September 2007 in a solo exhibition at Knoedler & Company in New York City, as well as several exhibitions at...
  
  
• Ronald Gorchov
• Sidney Gordin
• Dan Graham
  Dan Graham
  Dan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....
  
  
• Denise Green
• Rodney Alan Greenblat
  Rodney Greenblat
  Rodney Alan Greenblat, born August 23, 1960 in San Francisco, California, is an American graphic artist known best in the United States for the visual style of the computer games PaRappa the Rapper and UmJammer Lammy, and in Japan for his comic Thunder Bunny. He was also the character designer for...
  
  
• Peter Halley
  Peter Halley
  -Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
  
  
• William L. Haney
• Don Hazlitt
• Jene Highstein
• Stewart Hitch
• Jim Hodges
  Jim Hodges (artist)
  Jim Hodges is a New York-based installation artist.Hodges was born in Spokane, Washington in 1957. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1986.Since the late 1980s, Hodges has...
  
  
• Tom Holland
• John Hultberg
• Ralph Humphrey
• Bryan Hunt
  Bryan Hunt
  Bryan Hunt is an American modernist sculptor who was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1947. He attended the University of South Florida in 1967, and worked at the Kennedy Space Center as an engineers aide 67-68. In 1968, he moved to Los Angeles to enroll in the Otis College of Art and Design,...
  
  
• David Hunter
• Peter Hutchinson
• Will Insley
• Patrick Ireland aka Brian O’Doherty
• Ralph Iwamoto
• Neil Jenney
  Neil Jenney
  Neil Jenney is a self-taught artist born in 1945. He attended Massachusetts College of Art in 1964. In 1966 he moved to New York City where he currently resides....
  
  
• Bill Jensen
• Martin Johnson
• Joan Jonas
  Joan Jonas
  Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.She began her career in New York City as a sculptor...
  
  
• Tobi Kahn
• Stephen Kaltenbach
• Steven Karr
• Steve Keister
• Alain Kirili
• Mark Kostabi
  Mark Kostabi
  Kalev Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer.-Early life:Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27, 1960 to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and Rita Kostabi. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton...
  
  
• Moshe Kupferman
  Moshe Kupferman
  Moshe Kupferman is an Israeli artist.- Biography :Moshe Kupferman, painter, born 1926, Poland. 1941 Exiled with his family to camps in the Urals and in Germany. Moshe Kupferman's work links recent lyric abstraction to the modernistic...
  
  
• Cheryl Laemmle
• Ronnie Landfield
  Ronnie Landfield
  Ronnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.Landfield is...
  
  
• Michael Lash

• John Latham
  John Latham (artist)
  John Aubrey Clarendon Latham, was a British conceptual artist who lived for many years in England. He believed that violence and conflict between the people of the world is the result of ideological differences...
  
  
• Michael Lathrop
• Wendy Lehman
• Annette Lemieux
• Jill Levine
• Sol LeWitt
  Sol LeWitt
  Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
  
  
• Roy Lichtenstein
  Roy Lichtenstein
  Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...
  
  
• Robert Lobe
• Michael Lucero
• Robert Mangold
  Robert Mangold
  Robert Mangold is an American minimalist artist.- Works :“Robert Mangold’s paintings,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times in 1997, “are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is partly what’s good about them: the way they invite intense scrutiny, which, in the nature of good...
  
  
• Sylvia Plimack Mangold
  Sylvia Plimack Mangold
  Sylvia Plimack Mangold is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscapes....
  
  
• Andy Mann
• Antoni Miralda
• William Morehouse
• Kyle Morris
• Vik Muniz
  Vik Muniz
  Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...
  
  
• Takashi Murakami
  Takashi Murakami
  is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art...
  
  
• Catherine E. Murphy
• Elizabeth Murray
  Elizabeth Murray (artist)
  Elizabeth Murray was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R...
  
  
• Forrest Myers
• Giuseppe Napoli
• Joseph Nechvatal
  Joseph Nechvatal
  Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
  
  
• Richard Nonas
• David Novros
• Nam June Paik
  Nam June Paik
  Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
  
  
• Raymond Parker
  Ray Parker (painter)
  Raymond Parker was born in 1922 and he died in 1990. He was known as an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction...
  
  
• Betty Parsons
  Betty Parsons
  Betty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
  
  
• Henry C. Pearson
  Henry C. Pearson
  Henry C. Pearson was an American abstract and modernist painter. Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1938, and studied theatrical design at Yale University. He served in the U.S...
  
  
• Joel Perlman
• Richard Pettibone
• Lil Picard
• Larry Poons
  Larry Poons
  Lawrence Poons , better known as Larry Poons, is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician...
  
  
• Katherine Porter
• Lucio Pozzi
  Lucio Pozzi
  Lucio Pozzi is a Milanese painter and performance artist.His work is in the collections of the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Gallery of Ontario; the New York Public Library; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Giuseppe Panza;...
  
  
• David Rabinowitch
• David Reed
  David Reed (artist)
  David Reed is a contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.-Art:David Reed is known as a colorist and for creating long, narrow abstract paintings on canvas that are hung either lengthwise or vertically and feature several images resembling enlarged photographs of swirling brushstrokes...
  
  
• Edda Renouf
• Edward Renouf
• Judy Rifka
  Judy Rifka
  Judy Rifka, an American artist, first emerged in the 1970s as a painter and video artist, and is associated with Colab, Tribeca, the Lower East Side arts scene of that period, and such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard, John Ahearn, Richard Mock, Ron Gorchov, Becky Howland, Keith...
  
  
• Rodney Ripps
• Alexis Rockman
  Alexis Rockman
  Alexis Rockman is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings that provide rich depictions of future landscapes as they might exist with impacts of climate change and evolution influenced by genetic engineering. He has exhibited his work in the United States since 1985, including a...
  
  
• Stephen Rosenthal
• Christy Rupp
• David Salle
  David Salle
  David Salle is an American painter who helped define postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with a varied pictorial language of multi-imagery...
  
  

• John Salt
  John Salt
  John Salt is an English artist, whose obsessively detailed paintings from the late 1960s onwards made him one of the pioneers of the photorealist school....
  
  
• Alan Saret
• David Sawin
• F. (Frank) L. Schröder
• Hans Jürgen [H.A.] Schult
  HA Schult
  HA Schult, born Hans-Jürgen Schult on June 24, 1939 in Parchim, Mecklenburg is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage.- Life :...
  
  
• Peter Schuyff
• Barbara Schwartz
• Joel Shapiro
  Joel Shapiro
  Joel Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York...
  
  
• Judith Shea
  Judith Shea
  Judith Shea is an American-born sculptor. She is best known for a series of works in bronze in which she creates empty clothing forms which suggest figures that are not present; some of her more recent work incorporates figures as well...
  
  
• Cindy Sherman
  Cindy Sherman
  Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
  
  
• Alan Shields
• Yinka Shonibare
  Yinka Shonibare
  Yinka Shonibare, MBE, is a British-Nigerian artist living in the UK. He readily acknowledges physical disability as part of his identity but creates work in which this is just one strand of a far richer weave.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Lorna Simpson
  Lorna Simpson
  Lorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
  
  
• Tony Smith
  Tony Smith (sculptor)
  Tony Smith was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art. He is often cited as a pioneering figure in American Minimalist sculpture.-Education:...
  
  
• Keith Sonnier
  Keith Sonnier
  Keith Sonnier is a Postminimalist, performance, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and has been one of the most successful with this technique...
  
  
• Richard Stankiewicz
  Richard Stankiewicz
  Richard Stankiewicz was an American sculptor, known for his work in scrap metal.Stankiewicz was born in Philadelphia, but spent his formative years in Detroit. He began painting and sculpting while in the United States Navy, in which he served from 1941 until 1947...
  
  
• Robert Stanley
• Pat Steir
  Pat Steir
  Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker.-Education:Steir was born in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. She attended the Pratt Institute in New York from 1956 to 1958, and Boston University College of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1960. She then returned to Pratt,...
  
  
• Gary Stephan
• Michelle Stuart
  Michelle Stuart
  Michelle Stuart through her art has created complex, multifaceted investigations of the relationship between nature and culture for over four decades,. Her artworks range in scale from monumental earthworks to intimate talismanic sculptures...
  
  
• Donald Sultan
  Donald Sultan
  Donald Sultan is an American artist, known for large-scale still life paintings executed with bold contrasts of bright color and deep black forms, tight, nearly abstract compositions, and unorthodox media....
  
  
• Lori Taschler
• Hap Tivey
• John Torreano
  John Torreano
  John Torreano is an American artist from New York City. He is currently Clinical Professor of Studio Art at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Torreano is known for utilizing faceted gems in a variety of mediums in order to create "movement...
  
  
• Daryl Trivieri
• Richard Tuttle
  Richard Tuttle
  Richard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
  
  
• Lynn Umlauf
• Leo Valledor
  Leo Valledor
  Leo Valledor was a Filipino-American painter who pioneered the Hard-edge painting style. During the 1960s he was a member of the Park Place Gallery in Soho, New York, which exhibited many influential and significant artists of the period. He exhibited in several prominent galleries and museums,...
  
  
• Richard Van Buren
• Ruth Vollmer
  Ruth Vollmer
  Ruth Vollmer , was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.-Exhibitions:*1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery...
  
  
• Ursula von Rydingsvard
  Ursula von Rydingsvard
  Ursula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen, Germany is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975 after which time she started to work with cedar, a material through which she has explored a wide range of...
  
  
• Robert Marshall Watts
  Robert Watts (artist)
  Robert Watts was an American artist best known for his work as a member of the international Avant-garde art movement Fluxus. Born in Burlington, Iowa June 14, 1923, he became Professor of Art at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1953, a post he kept until 1984...
  
  
• Lawrence Weiner
  Lawrence Weiner
  Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Bettina Werner
  Bettina Werner
  Bettina Werner, born in Milan, Italy in 1965, is an Italian artist based in New York City. She has created artwork with her colorized salt technique since the early 1980s.-Life and work:She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera...
  
  
• Joseph White
• Thornton Willis
• Terry Winters
  Terry Winters
  Terry Winters is an American painter whose work reintroduced figuration into painting in way that was consonant with the Modernist legacy...
  
  
• Tod Wizon
• Martin Wong
  Martin Wong
  Martin Wong was a U.S. painter of the late twentieth century.-Early years:Wong was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, California. He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1968...
  
  
• Betty Woodman
  Betty Woodman
  Betty Woodman is an American artist.- Work and Influences :Internationally recognized as one of today’s most important sculptors using ceramics, Betty Woodman's career began in the 1950s as a production potter with the aim of creating beautiful objects to enhance everyday life...
  
  
• Mario Yrissary
• Larry Zox
  Larry Zox
  Lawrence "Larry" Zox was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work....
  
  
• Joe Zucker
• Michael Zwack

External links

• Vogel 50/50
• The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel papers, 1960-1990, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution