Grucci, Sibyl Barsky, 1905-, Grucci, Joseph L, 1911-1982, Pattee, Fred Lewis, Blum, Hyman, Frank, Jacob H, Filner, Samuel, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Federal Art Project (Pittsburgh, Pa.), United States. Works Progress Administration, Artists--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Sculpture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Women, Jewish--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Description
The Sibyl Barsky Grucci Photographs are housed in one archival box. They consist primarily of photographic Images of Grucci's sculptures in wood, stone, and metal from throughout her career. There are also a few photographs of paintings and drawings by Grucci., Sibyl Barsky Grucci gift 2005 2005.0162 Photographs, Mark M. Rubenstein gift 2010 2010.0029 Photographs, Sibyl Barsky Grucci (b. 1905) had a long career as a sculptor based first in Pittsburgh and later in State College, Pa. Barsky began to show her work in the Pittsburgh area in the early 1930s. At the suggestion of Samuel Rosenberg, Barsky taught art during one summer term at the Irene Kaufman Settlement. In the late 1930s Barsky was employed as part of the Pittsburgh Group of the Federal Art Project, a program, of the Works Progress Administration. On September 24, 1940, Sibyl Barsky married Joseph L. Grucci, a poet and professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and then at Penn State University in State College, Pa. Sibyl Barsky Grucci worked in clay, wood, stone, and bronze. Her sculpture has been exhibited in Pittsburgh and other cities in the northeaster United States. Many of her works were commissioned privately and are now in private collections throughout the United States. A notable public installation is a bronze bust of Fred Lewis Pattee, a popular Penn State professor; the bust is in the foyer of the Penn State library named after Pattee. The Grucci Poetry Center at Penn State, endowed by Sibyl after the death of her husband, has become the home of "The Young Dancer", a limestone piece first exhibited at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh show in 1935. Grucci's bronze bust oh Hyman Blum is on display at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History center in Pittsburgh, Pa., These materials were given in one accession, Acc. #2005.0162, Gift of Sibyl Barsky Grucci, Processed MSP 0423 11/29/2005 Martha L. Berg, Inventory available
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Grucci, Sibyl Barsky, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
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