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Belle Baranceanu - Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Belle Baranceanu - Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance (Hardcover)
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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 Drawing from previously unpublished letters and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.
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