The Aaronel deRoy Gruber Papers and Photographs
Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center
The Thomas & Katherine Detre Library & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center is Western Pennsylvania’s preeminent source for researching the region’s rich history. The Senator John Heinz History Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and the largest history museum in Pennsylvania, presents American history with a Western Pennsylvania connection.
The Aaronel deRoy Gruber Papers and Photographs document the professional career of Aaronel deRoy Gruber. The collection captures deRoy Gruber’s artistic career through exhibition files, programs, contracts, artist statements, artwork slides, correspondence, publicity, and biographical materials, along with her personal collection of artworks.
The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center, in collaboration with the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation, launched a growing digital archive that provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s work. This digital collection includes deRoy Gruber’s project files for more than 80 sculptures she created in the 1960s and 1970s. These files include notes, sketches, plans, invoices, work sheets, and photographs for sculptures, providing a detailed look at how one artist conceived and created her art. The digital archive also reveals a world of local contractors and foundries responsible for bringing these ideas into reality.
Explore the full collection contents and finding aid: Aaronel deRoy Gruber Papers and Photographs, c1879-2013, MSS 335, Rauh Jewish Archives, Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center.
