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Belle Baranceanu

Belle Baranceanu

American painter

Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu (July 17, 1902 – January 17, 1988) was an American painter, teacher, muralist, lithographer, engraver and illustrator.[1]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

She was born Belle Goldschlager in Chicago, Illinois (Baranceanu was her mother's maiden name).[2] Her parents, both Romanian Jewish immigrants,[3] separated during Belle's early childhood, and she grew up on her maternal grandparents' farm in North Dakota.[4]

Biography

Scenic View of the Village, mural for the United States Post Office in La Jolla, California

She studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts under Anthony Angarola, to whom she was engaged until his death in 1929. Active in Chicago during the 1920s as a teacher and exhibitor, she worked in Los Angeles, California in 1927–1928.[5] She moved to San Diego in 1933.

She painted an oil-on canvas-mural in the La Jolla post office (Scenic View of the Village) in 1936 for the Section of Painting and Sculpture.[6] As a muralist for the Works Progress Administration curriculum project, she painted murals for Roosevelt Junior High School (Building Padre Dam and Potola's Departure) in 1937–38.[7] Between 1939 and 1940 she completed a WPA mural titled The Seven Arts in the La Jolla High School Auditorium.[4][7]

Baranceanu was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists.

She exhibited her work at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and others. Baranceanu taught at the La Jolla School of Arts & Crafts and Frances Parker School. She died in La Jolla on January 17, 1988.

References

  1. [1]
    Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
  2. [2]
    Kovinick & Yoshiki-Kovinick 1997, p. 344.
  3. [3]
    "Belle Baranceanu" Archived 2014-01-10 at the Wayback Machine, Sullivan Goss, retrieved January 9, 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Belle Baranceanu (1902-1988)". sandiegohistory.org. San Diego History Center. Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  5. [5]
    Landauer, Gerdts, & Trenton 2003, p. 63.
  6. [6]
    "Post Office Mural – La Jolla CA". The Living New Deal. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  7. [7]
    "San Diego History Center: Baranceanu Murals – San Diego CA". The Living New Deal. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
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