Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu (July 17, 1902 – January 17, 1988) was an American painter, teacher, muralist, lithographer, engraver and illustrator.

[2] Her parents, both Romanian Jewish immigrants,[3] separated during Belle's early childhood, and she grew up on her maternal grandparents' farm in North Dakota.

[4] She studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts under Anthony Angarola, to whom she was engaged until his death in 1929.

[6] As a muralist for the Works Progress Administration curriculum project, she painted murals for Roosevelt Junior High School (Building Padre Dam and Potola's Departure) in 1937–38.

[7] Between 1939 and 1940 she completed a WPA mural titled The Seven Arts in the La Jolla High School Auditorium.