Hernandez has spent 30 years honing her knowledge for the book and an upcoming exhibit on early 20th century painter Belle Baranceanu
Jennifer Peoples Hernandez’s husband and three children like to joke that Belle Baranceanu may as well be a member of their family.
This reverence is also evident in “Belle Baranceanu: Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance,” Hernandez’s definitive and deftly researched biography of the artist and the time period of the Great Depression. It was released earlier this year and will be available in paperback on Friday.Jennifer Peoples Hernandez is the curator of the upcoming Belle Baranceanu exhibit “San Diego’s New Deal Renaissance: An Artist’s Experience” at the San Diego History Center.
It’s easy to see in Hernandez’s book how these events, taken together, may have helped shape and transform Baranceanu’s personal and artistic outlook. Even before relocating to San Diego in 1933 — where she primarily lived for the rest of her life as both an educator and working artist — her paintings, portraits and murals subtly explored issues of labor, feminism and class inequality.
“I’m so used to writing in an academic way, but I really am hoping this book reaches a wide audience,” says Hernandez. “I also wanted to write it for a person who was interested in art and picked it up.” Some of the works Baranceanu produced during this time, as well as some by other local artists, will be on display at “San Diego’s New Deal Renaissance: An Artist’s Experience,” an exhibition curated by Hernandez and opening Oct. 27 at the San Diego History Center. The show was scheduled to coincide with the paperback release of “Belle Baranceanu: Life, Art and the New Deal Renaissance” as well as the 90th anniversary of the New Deal.
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