Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. oil on canvas, Untitled 27002

2013.21.310

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Artist

Herbert Vogel (8/16/1922 - 7/22/2012, New York, N.Y.)

Title

Untitled

Creation Date

ca. 1958-1965

Century

20th century

Dimensions

24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Copyright

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Accession Number

2013.21.310

Publicly exhibited for the first time, the painting of Herb and Dorothy Vogel reveals their own talent as artists. Committed to engaging with the idiom of contemporary art, Herb’s work suggests his engagement with the lessons of Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s, while Dorothy’s art reflects an interested in hard-edge geometric painting of the early 1960s. “That’s how we began our early married life,” Dorothy recalls, “not as collectors, but as [aspiring] artists."