As many of you are well aware, there have been a number of large fires in New Mexico this year with the current Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos. We at Manitou Galleries want to reassure you that all is business as usual here in Santa Fe, save for the lack of fireworks this July 4th. Please don't hesitate to call us if you have any concerns about your summer travel plans.
Also, several hotels offer discounts through our Santa Fe Gallery Association Membership. Please call us for a list of participating hotels and rates.
We have many clients who have never set foot in the gallery but have purchased with us over the years via phone and internet. Maybe you'd like to project yourself here between visits. Well, this one's for you!
Herb & Dorothy Posted June 25th, 2011 by Manitou Galleries
In the early 1960s, Herb and Dorothy Vogel began collecting work from up-and-coming contemporary artists. Herb was a postal clerk and Dorothy a librarian. They decided to live on her salary and dedicate his paycheck to purchasing art. Over the subsequent years, they filled their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment with more than 2,000 works.
Their story was told in the 2008 documentary film “Herb & Dorothy.” Now, the National Gallery of Art (to which the Vogels gifted most of their collection in 1992) has begun a program of spreading the works around: “The Herb and Dorothy Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.”
The Vogels (the value of the collection has appreciated into millions of dollars) have never sold a work. Despite the Vogel’s modest means, James Stourton, chairman of Sotheby’s UK, in his book “Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945,” placed Herb and Dorothy among the top art collectors in the world, alongside the likes of Getty, Rockefeller, and Mellon.
Manitou Galleries on Canyon Road just this week put the final touches on our expanded gallery space. So this Friday, it's time for a party -- our official Grand Opening.
Come and join us Friday, June 24, from 5-8 p.m. for music, wine, beer, and a big 'ole sloppy barbecue. (Don't wear white!)
Descending Over Acoma -- Walter Wilson
Several of our artists are expected to be here, including photographer Gregg Albracht, bronze sculptors Jim Eppler and Steve Worthington, and painters Bruce Cody, Sally Delap-John, and Walter Wilson (who will also be signing books). Come meet some of the artists who you may only have known from a name on a gallery tag.
