In 1976, the Institute for Art and Urban Resources in New York City commissioned a series of video interviews with a group of art collectors who characterized the notion of the collector in the '70s. Eight collectors, or groups of collectors, were interviewed in this series, and the results are very revealing indeed.

Stanley Marsh 3
Stanley Marsh 3 is well known as a patron of Robert Smithson's Amarillo Ramp, and the Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch work. In this video interview, Marsh speaks with Los Angeles art historian and screenwriter Hildegard Duane and former Houston Contemporary Art Museum Director James Harithas.

• Directed and Edited by Peter Kirby and Hildegard Duane. Produced by David Ross for the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York. Interview by Hildegard Duane, James Harithas and others. Photographed by Peter Kirby. (1977, 25 mins, color)

Betty Asher
Betty Asher, a collector long associated with the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles, is interviewed by Alanna Heiss of the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Virginia Dwan, former Los Angeles and New York dealer, and David Ross, now Chief Curator of the University Art Museum. Mrs. Asher is seen both in her home, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she was a member of the Modern Art Department for the last eight years.

• Directed and Edited by Peter Kirby and Hildegard Duane. Produced by David Ross for the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York. Interview by Virginia Dwan, Alanna Heiss and David Ross. Photographed by David Ross. (1976, 17 mins)

Herbert and Dorothy Vogel
Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, interviewed by Newsweek architecture and photography critic Douglas Davis, are best known as the “working class” collectors of New York City. Herbert Vogel, a Post Office clerk, and his wife Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, spend every penny of their income beyond a bare necessity level on the purchase of original drawings and small sculpture. Their attitude towards their work and the scope and nature of their collection is dealt with by Davis in this revealing interview.

• Directed and Edited by Peter Kirby and Hildegard Duane. Produced by David Ross for the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York. Interview by Douglas Davis. Photographed by Andy Mann. (1977, 12 mins, color)