Oral history interview with Annemarie Pope
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 23 min.
- Interviewee
- Pope, Annemarie Henle, 1910-2001
- Interviewer
- Pennington, Estill Curtis
- Topic
- Art, American
- Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
- 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.
- Interviewee
- Pope, Annemarie Henle, 1910-2001
- Interviewer
- Pennington, Estill Curtis
- Culture
- German Americans
- Sponsor
- 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. This interview received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool.
- Biographical / Historical
- Annemarie Henle Pope (1910-2001) was an art administrator from Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany, who lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Topics discussed include growing up in Germany; art education; relocating to the United States; world travels; managing art exhibitions for the Smithsonian Institution; politics in art; and international traveling exhibitions, among other topics.
- Extent
- 34 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1981 Apr. 21
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.pope81
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Annemarie Pope conducted 1981 April 21, by Estill Curtis "Buck" Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.
- Restrictions
- This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596294078869-1596294078871-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Annemarie Pope, 1981 Apr. 21, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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