• Balboa Park: Club Murals - San Diego CA
    Belle Baranceanu painted two oil on canvas murals at Balboa Park in 1935, paid for with federal funding:  "Progress of Man" and “Education and Culture”.  She rushed to complete the later for the 1935-1936 California Pacific International Exposition and would later claim that she could not stand to look at it. These are the only two of her murals to survive in their original location.
  • Jacob Weinberger U.S. Courthouse: Baranceanu Mural - San Diego CA
    "San Diego Mural" was painted by Belle Baranceanu in 1934 with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. Medium: oil on canvas
  • Post Office Mural - La Jolla CA
    "Scenic View of the Village," 15' x 12' oil on canvas, painted by Belle Baranceanu, is a mural located in the La Jolla Post Office, La Jolla CA. 
  • San Diego History Center: Baranceanu Murals - San Diego CA
    In 1938, artist Belle Baranceanu painted two large murals "Building Padre Dam" and "Portola's Departure" on the sides of the stage at Roosevelt Junior High (now Roosevelt Middle School) in San Diego for the WPA Curriculum Project. The San Diego Historical Society notes: "For Roosevelt Junior High she was asked to use the theme of the "Four Cornerstones of American Democracy" for which she prepared some working drawings. Finding the concept terribly dull, she switched to historical subjects: Building Padre Dam and Portola's Departure (1937-38)." The school was remodeled in the 1970s, but "the Roosevelt Junior High murals were done on canvas...