- 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 the oil-on-canvas mural “Progress of Man” for the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park, 1935-36. Federal funds paid for the work. Eleanor Roosevelt is supposed to have called it “one of the best she’d ever seen,” but Baranceanu later claimed that she had been rushed and parts of it “were just scrubbed in.”
Source notes
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/baranceanu/baranceanu.htm
www.newdealartregistry.org
"Belle Baranceanu: The Artist at Work," San Diego Historical Society
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on June 18, 2008.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker, Gray Brechin.
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