Herbert Vogel was a postal employee; his wife Dorothy was a reference librarian. A hard-working New York couple of modest means. And when they did decide to splurge, it wasn’t on Alaska cruises or another Oldsmobile. Instead, they bought art. Over their lifetime, they amassed a sizable collection of everything from expressionist works to minimalist pieces, a collection encompassing more than 4,000 art works that wouldn’t exactly fit in the living room.

So, instead of handing it off wholesale to a single museum, the Vogels are, in a sense, turning the whole country into the Vogel Museum, giving each state 50 pieces from their collection, for a total of 2,500 works.

CityBlog just got word that the Las Vegas Art Museum has been chosen to receive Nevada’s share of this gift from the Vogel Collection. The museum is set to receive 50 works by artists such as Bettina Werner, Edward Renouf, F.L. Schroder, Larry Zox and others. It’s a major coup for the museum whose stature and programming in recent years just gets better and better.

That’s the good news. The bad news is you’ll have to wait to see the works until April 17, when LVAM will put on an exhibit that runs through Aug. 9.

For more info on the Vogel Collection — and to see the work — check this out.