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Rita Briansky Fonds

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1.0m of textual documents ; 54 sketchbooks ; 1623 photographs ; 3 audio cassettes

Fonds No.: 1291

Date: 1910 - 2011 [predominant 1950 to 2000]

Scope and Content: The fonds contains documentation, professional and working materials of Rita Briansky’s many projects and works. The fonds consists of textual records, including correspondence, selections of the artist’s writing; graphic material, including sketchbooks and photographic documentation of…

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1.0m of textual documents ; 54 sketchbooks ; 1623 photographs ; 3 audio cassettes

Scope and Content: The fonds contains documentation, professional and working materials of Rita Briansky’s many projects and works. The fonds consists of textual records, including correspondence, selections of the artist’s writing; graphic material, including sketchbooks and photographic documentation of her work; audio recordings of Rita Briansky’s interviews and reviews; newspaper clippings, bibliographic reference publications and articles citing the artist’s work.

Date: 1910 - 2011 [predominant 1950 to 2000]

Fonds No.: 1291

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

History / Biographical: Rita Briansky, painter, printmaker-etcher and teacher, was born in 1925 in Grajewo, Poland. Together with her mother and two sisters, Bella and Becky, the family moved to Ansonville, Ontario in 1929. Here, they joined Briansky’s father and uncle, Jake Perlmutter, and his family in Ansonville, which at the time had a small Jewish community. In 1939, the family moved to Val d’Or, Quebec and finally to Montreal in 1941. Then in her mid-teens, Rita Briansky was a keen student who nourished a continued interest in art. With the move to Montreal, the Briansky Family struggled financially and was unable to afford the fee for Rita’s high school education. It was the Yiddish poet Ida Massey who found Rita a job so she would be able to pay for her schooling. This encouragement served as the beginning of a valuable friendship, as well as helping foster Briansky’s artistic career. Massey later introduced Rita to Alexander Berkowitz who at the time was giving art classes at the St. Urbain Street ‘Y’. Her training and experience quickly expanded, taking the young artist through Montreal’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts and New York’s Arts Student League. In 1949, Rita married fellow painter, Joseph Prezament.The couple had two children together, Anna and Wendy. Briansky’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions both in Canada and internationally. Her body of work is diverse in both theme and subject matter, reflecting her interests in fields such as astronomy and the natural world, while remaining deeply rooted in her own experiences. Following her travels to her birth place and memorial sites in Poland in 1995, Briansky produced the ‘Kaddish series’ as her reflection on the trauma of the Holocaust. Other series have broadly used landscape, portraiture and still lifes as a passionate response to the world around her and that speak fundamentally to the human condition. Briansky has participated in multiple collaborative projects, for example the children's book “On Stage, Please” with dancer/ choreographer Veronica Tennant. Briansky is long-established within Montreal’s art community working and living alongside a tight-knit group of artists. In addition, she has worked as teacher, both of art history and studio arts. Briansky’s artistic practice has won her multiple awards and her work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Language: English; French; Yiddish

Custodial History: The material was donated by Rita Briansky in August 2012.

Arrangement: Textual material in Series 2 through 4 was given an imposed order as no discernable original order could be identified. The graphic material in Series 3, 6 and 7 were vetted for duplicates, though otherwise maintain the order given by the artist.

Notes: Selected images from Series 1,6 and 7 have been digitized and are available to researchers upon request.

Access Restrictions: Privacy restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions may apply. For queries please contact Head of Archives, Shannon Hodge: shannon.hodge@jplmontreal.org

Finding Aid: Detailed finding aid available, file level control

Accession No.: 12-015

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Artists; Fine Arts; Drawings; Maze, Ida, 1893-1962.

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Images

Sketchbooks.

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 54 sketchbooks

Fonds No.: 1291; 1

Date: 1949-1996

Scope and Content: This series consists of various sketchbooks produced by Rita Briansky. The material spans a number of decades and contains illustrations and studies of her subjects, some of which are included in larger works. The images included are drawn in pen and ink, graphite, colour pastel and pencil. Many of…

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 54 sketchbooks

Scope and Content: This series consists of various sketchbooks produced by Rita Briansky. The material spans a number of decades and contains illustrations and studies of her subjects, some of which are included in larger works. The images included are drawn in pen and ink, graphite, colour pastel and pencil. Many of these books cover specific trips and themes, or relate to a specific series of the artist’s work.

Date: 1949-1996

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sketchbooks, "1949 - 50, Montreal, Winnipeg"

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : chalk pastel, acrylic, pen and ink, and graphite

Fonds No.: 1291; 1; 00071

Date: 1949 - 1950

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : chalk pastel, acrylic, pen and ink, and graphite

Date: 1949 - 1950

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00071

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Fine Arts; Drawings; Artists

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sketchbooks, "Winnigpeg - Mtl, 1950 - 51"

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : graphite, coloured pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour

Fonds No.: 1291; 1; 00070

Date: 1950 - 1952

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : graphite, coloured pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour

Date: 1950 - 1952

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00070

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Fine Arts; Drawings; Artists

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sketchbook, "1952 Bethune, Joe, Richard & bike"

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and chalk pastel

Fonds No.: 1291; 1; 00074

Date: 1952

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and chalk pastel

Date: 1952

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00074

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Fine Arts; Drawings; Artists

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sketchbook, "1953-1954 Jean-Talon Market"

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : graphite, charcoal, and pen and ink

Fonds No.: 1291; 1; 00073

Date: 1953 - 1954

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : graphite, charcoal, and pen and ink

Date: 1953 - 1954

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00073

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Fine Arts; Drawings; Artists

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sketchbook, "1955".

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : watercolour, pen and ink, graphite

Fonds No.: 1291; 1; 00048

Date: 1955

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : watercolour, pen and ink, graphite

Date: 1955

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00048

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Fine Arts; Drawings; Artists

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Sketchbook, "Mrs. Duchon, Marguerite, Marvin".

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67833

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, pastel, and graphite

Fonds No.: 1291; 1; 00047

Date: 1957

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Item

Material Type: graphic material

Physical Description: 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, pastel, and graphite

Date: 1957

Fonds No.: 1291

Series No.: 1

File No.: 00047

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Rita Briansky

Name Access: Briansky, Rita

Subjects: Briansky, Rita. 1925 -; Artists; Fine Arts; Drawings

Archival / Genealogical: Archival Descriptions

Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Biographical material and artist's presentations.

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Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.08m of multiple media

Fonds No.: 1291; 3

Date: 1959-2011

Scope and Content: This series consists of both graphic and textual material on the artist's work used in presentations given by the artist. It includes both speech notes and photographic slides related to these presentations. While most of this material reflects directly on the career and life of Rita Briansky, she…

Collection: Rita Briansky Fonds

Description Level: Series

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 0.08m of multiple media

Scope and Content: This series consists of both graphic and textual material on the artist's work used in presentations given by the artist. It includes both speech notes and photographic slides related to these presentations. While most of this material reflects directly on the career and life of Rita Briansky, she also gave lectures regarding the history of Jewish art and works that reflects on experiences of the Holocaust.