KEVIN & CHERYL VOGEL

Dallas native Kevin Vogel was reared at Valley House Gallery, which was founded by his parents, Donald and Peggy Vogel, in 1954. A childhood at Valley House began his art education.  A lengthy tour of Europe after high school inspired him to apprentice at the gallery, an aid to his father after his mother succumbed to an illness.  Since then his education has been self-directed through observation at museums and galleries, travel, and collecting.

Cheryl Westgard Vogel was working on a graduate degree in art history at SMU when Bill Jordan recommended her for a summer job at Valley House in 1978. She never left. Throughout her childhood, Cheryl attended events at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, sparking her interest in art. Meeting literary scholar/art collector Artine Artinian in high school and making frequent visits with Al Goldman at his eponymous Worth Avenue gallery initiated her interest in the gallery world.

As the second generation directors of Valley House Gallery, Kevin and Cheryl Vogel represent over 40 living artists and the estates of others, particularly Early Texas artists.  Organizing exhibitions for the gallery and the 4 acre sculpture garden as well as traveling exhibitions of Valley House artists for museums, publishing catalogues, and exhibiting in art fairs nationally has been the focus of their lives.

Personally, they collect contemporary art, old master prints, and European drawings, and have a weakness for visiting Romanesque architecture in France. Their greatest pleasure is finding a new artist to promote or discovering an older artist who has been overlooked.