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Film 895: Herb & Dorothy

Trivia: For the first 74 minutes of the film, Herbert Vogel is not credited on screen as all the other credited cast members are, until the archive footage of Charlie Rose, 1992 is shown, and then he is credited as "Herbert Vogel, art collector" from the on screen graphics for The Charlie Rose Show archival footage. Dorothy Vogel is never directly credited on screen.

Per the inventory of art works done for the National Gallery of Art, their collection included more than 4,782 works of art, collected over more than thirty years. After the donation to the National Gallery of Art and their 50 states, 50 works donation, they still continued to collect aggressively, in their 70s (Dorothy) and approaching age 90 (Herb).

Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude created an installation art project called "The Gates" in Central Park, Manhattan in February 2005. The art project consisted of 7,503 purpose built and installed vinyl "gates" snaking along and over 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in New York City's Central Park. From each gate they draped a large piece of deep saffron (bright orange) nylon fabric. The installation was unveiled in a public ceremony on February 12, 2005, and remained standing through February 27, 2005. In books and other media sold by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, they refer to the project as "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005." The dates were a reference to the period of time between the artists' initial proposal to the city, until they were permitted to have it installed. One of the works which was part of the Vogel Collection donated to The National Gallery of Art was one of the conceptual drawings produced for "The Gates" art project from 1996, which Christo and Jeanne-Claude sold (or traded for "cat sitting") to their friends, Herbert Vogel and Dorothy Vogel.

It took more than five full tractor trailer moving trucks to crate up and transport the Vogel's collection from Manhattan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. More than five full trucks to transport the artwork stored in a small Manhattan one bedroom apartment.