Sibyl Barsky Grucci photographs Photographs 1928-2001

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Grucci, Joseph L., 1911-1982.

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Grucci, Sibyl Barsky.

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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 Jos...

Federal Art Project Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Filner, Samuel.

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Grucci, Sibyl Barsky, 1905-

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Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (Pa.)

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Pattee, Fred Lewis, 1863-1950

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Fred Lewis Pattee was an American author, poet, teacher, scholar, and a leading authority on American literature. He was Professor of English and Rhetoric at Pennsylvania State College, and later became Professor of American Literature. In 1891 Pattee published his first book, LITERATURE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and his first published verse collection was THE WINE OF MAY (1893). Pattee's most important critical work was the first volume of HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870 (1915), which w...

Blum, Hyman.

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Frank, Jacob H

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