Oral history interview with Audrey Sabol
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 26 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sabol, Audrey, 1922-
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
label: Names
content: Beautiful Bag Co. (Philadelphia,Pa.)
label: Names
content: University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art
label: Names
content: YM/YWHA. Arts Council
label: Names
content: Atkinson, Ti-Grace
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content: Indiana, Robert, 1928-2018
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content: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
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content: Serra, Richard, 1938-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Pop art
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Sabol, Audrey, 1922-
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Audrey Sabol (1922-2021) was an art administrator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who was involved with contemporary art and Pop art exhibitions and merchandising.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 June 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sabol87
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Audrey Sabol conducted 1987 June 10, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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 exhibitions, including Richard Serra, Nancy Graves, Mark di Suvero, Allan Kaprow, Bill Wiley, and Christo. 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. with Joan Kron, such as Roy Lichtenstein dishes and a Robert Indiana love ring. She concludes by discussing her own collecting, and her observations on the Philadelphia art scene. She also recalls associations with Billy Klüver and Leo Castelli Gallery, among others.