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Belle Baranceanu

Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance
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In this first biography of artist Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu, Jennifer Hernandez tells the extraordinary story of a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and a prominent modern California Modern artist. Baranceanu's art and worldview were influenced by her Jewish Romanian immigrant family background and hardscrabble childhood in the Great Plains. Her meteoric rise in the art world began in Chicago in the 1920s but the onset of the Great Depression nearly ended her career. However, destitution qualified Baranceanu for work relief, and she was soon hired to produce art for all the New Deal federal government art projects beginning in 1934. Drawing from previously unpublished letters and archival records, Hernandez skillfully weaves Baranceanu's resilient story into the larger history of the Depression and New Deal in Chicago and San Diego and highlights the success of the government's work relief programs. For Baranceanu and others fortunate enough to work for the New Deal art projects, the Depression turned out to be a golden age in American art history with a level of government patronage that has been unmatched ever since.
Jennifer Hernandez teaches at San Diego Mesa College.
Chapter 1: The First American Chapter 2: Childhood and Homesteading in North Dakota, 1904-1920 Chapter 3: Becoming an Artist, 1920-1926 Chapter 4: The Los Angeles Period, 1927-1929 Chapter 5: Grief and Depression, Chicago, 1929-1932 Chapter 6: Relief Chapter 7: The Federal Government becomes a Patron of the Arts, 1933-1934 Chapter 8: The Emergency Work Relief Program in San Diego, 1934-1935 Chapter 9: A World's Fair and a Growing Art Community Chapter 10: A Second New Deal for the Arts Chapter 11: Decorating the Post Office Chapter 12: The Federal Art Project Chapter 13: The End of an Era
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