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Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90

On modest civil servants’ salaries, she and her husband amassed a trove of some 4,000 works by art-world luminaries, storing them in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.

© Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Dorothy Vogel with her husband, Herbert, in a New York gallery in 1992. Their Manhattan rent-controlled apartment functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space for thousands of works by contemporary artists.
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