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Interviewee:
Sabol, Audrey, 1922-  Search this
Interviewer:
Pacini, Marina  Search this
Subject:
Atkinson, Ti-Grace  Search this
Indiana, Robert  Search this
Lichtenstein, Roy  Search this
Serra, Richard  Search this
Beautiful Bag Co. (Philadelphia,Pa.)  Search this
University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art  Search this
YM/YWHA. Arts Council  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
48 Pages, Transcript
General Note:
Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 26 min.
Summary:
An interview of Audrey Sabol conducted 1987 June 10, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art.
Sabol speaks of her education; her assocation with the Arts Council of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association; how the council was organized and how it operated. She discusses some of the individual artists involved with the exhibits, including Richard Serra. She continues by discussing her tenure on the board of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and Ti-Grace Atkinson, its first director; projects completed by the Beautiful Bag Co. such as Roy Lichtenstein dishes and a Robert Indiana love ring; and an unsuccessful attempt to do an exhibition on billboards for which a Roy Lichtenstein billboard was completed. She concludes by discussing her own collecting, and her observations on the Philadelphia art scene.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Audrey Sabol, 1987 June 10. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Funding:
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Biography Note:
Audrey Sabol (1922- ) is an art administrator from Philadelphia, Pa.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Pop art  Search this
Theme:
Women  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)12868
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212162
AAA_collcode_sabol87
Theme:
Women
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212162