 Belle Goldschlager is primarily known as Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born to immigrant parents who separated when she was a youngster, Belle Baranceanu lived with her maternal grandparents on a farm in North Dakota and then attended high school and the Minneapolis School of Art in Minneapolis. She studied with Anthony Angarola, crediting him as being a major influence on her work. They also had a romantic relationship, which offended her orthodox Jewish father because Angarola was Italian-Catholic. However, the couple made plans to marry, but Angarola died in 1929 before the ceremony. In 1932, bitter with her father, she changed her name from Goldschlager, his surname, to Baranceanu, which was the name of her mother.
Meanwhile Baranceanu had left Minneapolis in 1924 for Chicago, where she studied at the Art Institute. Although she gave much credit to her style to Angarola, she had a mature style that was distinctively her own. She did abstract, flattened designs of scenes of Chicago creating "simplified shpaes of ghe buildings into a balanced interplay of form and color." (Kennedy 87)
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Elizabeth Kenndy, "Chicago Modern 1893-1945" |
Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Muralist, painter, printmaker. Born in Chicago, IL on July 17, 1902.
Baranceanu (née Goldschlager) studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and AIC under Anthony Angarola. She was engaged to Angarola until his untimely death in 1929. Active in Chicago during the 1920s as a teacher and exhibitor, she moved to southern California in 1933. After settling in San Diego, she did murals for the Public Works of Art Project in the La Jolla Post Office and Roosevelt Jr. High School. She was active in the art world there through the early 1960s.
Locally, she taught at the La Jolla School of Arts & Crafts, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery and Frances Parker School. Baranceanu was a vital force in the local art scene until her demise in La Jolla on Jan. 10, 1988.
Member: Chicago Society of Artists; San Diego Art Guild (pres., 1950); La Jolla Art Center.
Exh: AIC, 1926, 1928, 1931 (Carr prize); Painters & Sculptors of LA, LACMA, 1927, 1928; Kansas City Art Inst., 1927; Calif.-Pacific Intl Expo (San Diego), 1935 (silver medal); GGIE, 1939; San Diego Art Guild, 1940 (1st prize; SFMA, 1941; Carnegie Inst., 1943; Library of Congress, 1943, 1945, 1946; NAD, 1943-46; Denver Museum, 1945; San Diego Co. Administration Bldg, 1980 and UC San Diego, 1985 (retrospectives).
In: La Jolla Art Center; San Diego Museum; Library of Congress. ]WWAA 1938-62; KOV; San Diego Union, 11-10-1985 and 1-21-1988 (obit). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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