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Sketch, "A Synagogue in the Shtetl"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn16722
- Collection
- May Cutler Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketch : col.
- 003
- Date
- 1969
- Collection
- May Cutler Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketch : col.
- Date
- 1969
- File No.
- 003
- Storage Location
- 7-3C
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Notes
- Stored in Small Collections Box#3 (SC3)
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Shtetl life
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Presentation slides, paintings by Rita Briansky, Yom Kippur kit
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn43050
- Collection
- Education Resource Centre Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 60 slides : col.
- Fonds No.
- 1270; 00114
- Date
- 1974
- Collection
- Education Resource Centre Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 60 slides : col.
- Responsibility
- Rita Briansky
- Date
- 1974
- Fonds No.
- 1270
- File No.
- 00114
- Storage Location
- Ctn.004
- 5-5D
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Education
- Education - Jews
- Education Resource Centre
- Education, Preschool
- Education, Secondary
- Jewish Education Council of Greater Montreal
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Rita Briansky Fonds
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67779
- 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…
- 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
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Sketchbooks.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67780
- 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
Sketchbook, "St. Louis, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Sutton"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67817
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and coloured chalk
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00031
- Date
- 12 Oct. 1984 - Oct. 1986
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and coloured chalk
- Date
- 12 Oct. 1984 - Oct. 1986
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00031
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Notes
- Includes quotation on inner cover
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Drawings
- Artists
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "Sutton"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67818
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00032
- Date
- 1991 - 1993
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink
- Date
- 1991 - 1993
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00032
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Notes
- Annotatation in inner cover: Campostella, Spain
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Fine Arts
- Drawings
- Artists
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "1983-84 Year of Joe's death"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67820
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and water colour
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00034
- Date
- 1983 - 1984
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and water colour
- Date
- 1983 - 1984
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00034
- 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, "Cincinnati"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67821
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook, pen and ink, and crayon
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00035
- Date
- 1990
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook, pen and ink, and crayon
- Date
- 1990
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00035
- 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, "Israel".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67823
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, watercolour, pastel and coloured pencil
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00037
- Date
- 1986
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, watercolour, pastel and coloured pencil
- Date
- 1986
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00037
- 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
Sketchbook, "Mount Royal & Sutton".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67824
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and colour pencil.
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00038
- Date
- 1987
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and colour pencil.
- Date
- 1987
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00038
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Artists
- Drawings
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "Spain".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67825
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite, pen and ink, and pastel
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00039
- Date
- 1988
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite, pen and ink, and pastel
- Date
- 1988
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00039
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Drawings
- Fine Arts
- Artists
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "1960".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67826
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : watercolour, pastel, graphite, acrylic, and pen and ink.
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00040
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : watercolour, pastel, graphite, acrylic, and pen and ink.
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00040
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Drawings
- Fine Arts
- Artists
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "1966, Cat".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67828
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00042
- Date
- 1966
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite
- Date
- 1966
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00042
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Name Access
- Rita Briansky
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Fine Arts
- Drawings
- Artists
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "Anna, Wdy, Pastels, Joe".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67829
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite, pastels, pen and ink, and acrylic
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00043
- Date
- 1961
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite, pastels, pen and ink, and acrylic
- Date
- 1961
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00043
- 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
Sketchbook, "Wendy, Joe, Dave - checkers, Marguerite, Peter D., Ida Massey".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67830
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite, pen and ink, watercolour, and pastel
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00044
- Date
- 1960
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite, pen and ink, watercolour, and pastel
- Date
- 1960
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00044
- 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
Sketchbook, "Musician Veraslatkia".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67831
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pastel, graphite, and pen and ink
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00045
- Date
- 1959
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pastel, graphite, and pen and ink
- Date
- 1959
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00045
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Briansky
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Drawings
- Artists
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "Joe, Anna, children".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67832
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : watercolour, charcoal, pen and ink, and pastel.
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00046
- Date
- 1959
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : watercolour, charcoal, pen and ink, and pastel.
- Date
- 1959
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00046
- 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
Sketchbook, "1955".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67834
- 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, "Anna, Wdy, Alice, Nathan".
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67835
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : chalk pastel, graphite, pen and ink
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00049
- Date
- 1961 - 1962
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : chalk pastel, graphite, pen and ink
- Date
- 1961 - 1962
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00049
- 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
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