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San Diego Mural by Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu
Photo CreditNicole Avila/GSA
San Diego Mural
Photo CreditNicole Avila/GSA

San Diego Mural

Year1934
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions95 5/8 x 60 1/8 in. (242.9 x 152.7 cm)
Credits New Deal Art Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
  • The mural depicts naval ships, farmers, oil wells, and a mission interspersed among ocean and hillsides.  Her style was beginning to take on the influence of Diego Rivera.  The work was commissioned under the Public Works of Art Project as San Diego was preparing for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition.