Herb & Dorothy

This film takes you through the decades beginning in the late 1950's to 2008. We see youthful photographs of Dorothy and Herb, he as a interested art appreciator and his new bride whom he takes to museums to cultivate her tastes in the vast art world. They move into a small Manhattan apartment and take up painting in their spare time. Soon they discover other painters in the city and postpone their own painting endeavors, switching to collecting the art of others. Others that are unknown and very affordable to buy. Squeezing more and more art into their modest home, the Vogels finally reach their limit,deciding to bequeath it all to the National Museum. During this film we see many examples of the artwork the Vogels had collected over the years as it is all discussed and critiqued. We learn what type of people the Vogels are, for example not wishing to sell any of the artwork they had collected, which, had they done so, would have yielded them a pretty penny. A very affectionate look into the lives of one married couple with an eye for art.        7/12/09