Belle Baranceanu

Artist Details

• First Name Belle
• Maiden Name Goldschlager
• Alternate Name(s) Belle Goldschlager Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu
• Surname Baranceanu
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date July 17, 1902
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date January 10, 1988
• Death Place La Jolla, California
• Ethnicity Romanian Jewish
• Residence(s) 1902-?: Chicago, Illinois
  
  ?-1920: Williston, North Dakota
  
  1920-1925: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
  1925-26, 1929-1933: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1927-1929: Los Angeles, California with uncle Zack Baroney
  
  1933-1988: San Diego, California,
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  San Diego, California
  
   
• Categories Block Printer, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil
• Training 1921: graduated from West High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  1921-1925: Minneapolis School of Fine Art, College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota under Anthony Angarola
  1925: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Cameron Booth, Richard Lahey, and Morris Davidson
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1926: Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Riverview Section
  
  1931, 1938: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1934: San Diego, Grossmutter
  
  1937: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1939: Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
  
  1943-1946: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  1927: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
  
  1928: Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: Little Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1932: Chicago Woman's Aid
  
  1933, 1934, 1937, 1939: Exhibition of Southern California Art, San Diego, California
  
  1935: California Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  November 8-December 15, 1965: Belle Baranceanu: A Retrospective, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, California.   (catalog produced)
  
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  
  Nebraska Art Association
  
  San Diego (CA) Fine Arts Gallery
  
  Carnegie Institute
  
  Denver Art Museum
  
  John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
  Des Moines Association of Fine Arts
• Collections San Diego Historical Society, San Diego, California
• Publications Dijkstra, Bram and Anne Weaver. Belle Baranceanu - A Retrospective. La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, 1985. Dijkstra, Bram. On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art. Ed. Karlstrom, Paul, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. pp. 170-71. Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller, eds. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. p. 49. Jacobson, J. Z., ed. Art of Today: Chicago, 1933. Chicago: L. M. Stein, Publisher, 1932. pp. 42, 43, 139. Kammerling, Bruce. "Belle Baranceanu: (1902-1988)," www.sandiegohistory.org. (The Journal of San Diego History, Summer 1994, vol.40 no.3) Kennedy, Elizabeth, ed. Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. 58, 59, 87. New Deal Art: California. de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, 1976. Her work has been written about in The American Magazine of Art, Dawn, The Christian Science Monitor, The Reflex and various other publications, by Charles Fabens Kelley, S. P. Rudens, Karen Fish, Tom Vickerman and Peggy Wolf.
• Memberships Chicago Society of Artists
  
  Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists
  
  San Diego Art Guild; elected President 1950
• Awards 1931: Honorable Mention, San Diego Art Guild Annual, San Diego Art Guild, San Diego, California: Wabash Avenue Bridge
  
  1931: Clyde M. Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Wabash Avenue Bridge
  
  1936: Silver Medal for Achievement in Art, California Pacific International Exposition
  
  1937: Second PrizeSan Diego Art Guild, San Diego, California: Deer, linocut
  
  1940: Annual First Prize in Graphics, San Diego Art Guild, San Diego, California: Drill Baboon
  
  1941: First Honorable Mention, Escondido Annual Art Exhibition, Escondido, California: Brick Factory
  
  Chicago Society of Artists
  
  1945: First Honorable Mention, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado: Drill Baboon
  
   
  
   
• Archive(s) San Diego Historical Society
• Other Occupation(s) Teacher, private classes
  
  1946-1951: San Diego School of Arts and Crafts
  
  1946-1969: taught at Frances Parker School, San Diego, California
  
  1934-1940: worked for WPA/FAP, California
  
  1936-1939: made cover designs and illustrations for WPA Curriculum Projects books
  
  1959: taught at California Western University, San Diego, California
  
  taught at La Jolla School of Arts and Crafts, La Jolla, California
• Biography Both parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants; she and her sister Teresa grew up on their maternal grandparents’ farm in Williston, North Dakota until her parents remarried in 1920.
  
  Baranceanu was her mother’s maiden name, which she took in 1932; Goldschlager was her father’s name.
  
  Late in life, afflicted by Alzheimer's Disease.