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.
Source: New York Times
Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
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