Oral history interview with Annemarie Pope, 1981 Apr. 21, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
Oral history interview with Annemarie Pope, 1981 April 21, Transcript
Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 23 min.
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An interview of Annemarie Pope conducted 1981 April 21, by Estill Curtis "Buck" Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.
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.
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.
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.