- City:
- San Diego, CA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1935
- Artist:
- Belle Baranceanu
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
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.
Source notes
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/baranceanu/baranceanu.htm
www.newdealartregistry.org
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on June 18, 2008.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker, Gray Brechin.
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