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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
Photographs (Portraits).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67786
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.24m of photographic material
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7
- Date
- 1910-2005
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of both photographs and negatives from Briansky’s childhood, as well as her artistic career and in particular, her working process. It includes portraits of the artist and her family, in addition to images of the arts community she works within.
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 0.24m of photographic material
- Scope and Content
- This series consists of both photographs and negatives from Briansky’s childhood, as well as her artistic career and in particular, her working process. It includes portraits of the artist and her family, in addition to images of the arts community she works within.
- Date
- 1910-2005
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior snapshot, woman working in back garden behind the Perlmutter's Economy Store, Ansonville, Ontario.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67881
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018253
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 10.5cm
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018253
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior snapshot, woman and child working in garden behind of the Perlmutter's Economy Store, Ansonville, Onario.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67882
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018254
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 10.5cm
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018254
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior snapshot, man and women working in garden behind the Perlmutter's Ecomony Store, Ansonville, Ontario.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67883
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.4 x 10.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018255
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.4 x 10.5cm
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018255
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, Jake, Billy and Kayla Perlmutter (Uncle, Cousin and Aunt of R. Briansky).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67885
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018257
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [between 1910 and 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018257
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, three men standing in field. Image includes Jake Perlmutter (uncle of R. Briansky).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67879
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 7.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018251
- Date
- [before 1914]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 7.5cm
- Date
- [before 1914]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018251
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior portrait of Kayla, Betty and Jake Perlmutter (Aunt, Cousin and Uncle of R. Briansky).
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67880
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018252
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018252
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, Saul and Joe (on R. Briansky's mother's side) from New York.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67884
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018256
- Date
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [between 1920 and 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018256
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sutdio portrait of the Briansky family, Grajewo, Poland.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67911
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.0 x 13.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018283
- Date
- [ca. 1926]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.0 x 13.5cm
- Date
- [ca. 1926]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018283
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Inscribed verso: Grajewo Poland / Father holding Rita Mother - 2 sisters / circa 1926
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, Briansky family in Grajewo, Poland, last image taken before move the Canada.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67910
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018282
- Date
- 1929
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1929
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018282
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Inscribed verso: Last photo taken in Grajewo / cousins in back / front sister, Rita, Grandmother, sister, cousin / 17.7.29 Inscribed additionally in Yiddish
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Interior group portrait, Halloween party. Image includes Betty Perlmutter, standing far right, Minnie Abramson, sitting front row centre, and Betty Kideckel, with tie on left side, who owned grocery stores in Ansonville.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67875
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.5cm x 11.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018247
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.5cm x 11.5cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018247
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Tear on upper right corner
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Halloween.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Snapshot, exterior of Jake Perlmutter's (uncle of R. Briansky) the Economy Store, selling men and women's clothing in Ansonville.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67878
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 11.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018250
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 11.5cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018250
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, seven women posed on train tracks overlooking river. Image includes Min Abramson Hoffman, Agnes Sekuloff, Julia Shisko, Annette Richer, Margaret Wall, Min Abramson Zimmer, Becky Kideckel.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67887
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 7.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018259
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1945]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 7.0cm
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1945]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018259
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, Becky, Rita and Bella Briansky posed outdoor for first winter.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67891
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.7 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018263
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.7 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018263
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Interior portrait, Rita Briansky and Shirely
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67892
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018264
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018264
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Children
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait, Kayla Perlmutter, Rita and Billy Briansky standing at the back of the Briansky home.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67893
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.7cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018265
- Date
- [ca.1930]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9.7cm
- Date
- [ca.1930]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018265
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior portrait. Cheder girls posed outside of synagogue, Ansonville Ontario. Image includes Norma Kussner and Ludwig sisters.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67895
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018267
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1935]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1935]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018267
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Material Details
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 11.5cm
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait. Cheder boys posed outside of the synagogue, Ansonville, Ontario. Includes front row (r-l) Yanke (Jack) Abramson, Norton Nosor (father owned a grocery store), the brother of Yanke. Back row (r-l) unidentified boy, Gordon Kideckel, Nathan Nosor, Noram Glaberman, and Ludwig brother.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67896
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 11.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018268
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1935]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 11.5cm
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1935]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018268
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Exterior group portrait. Rita (wearing hat), Becky and Bella Brianksy with mother in Ansonville, Ontario.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67909
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 12.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 7; 018281
- Date
- 1930
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 12.5cm
- Date
- 1930
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 018281
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Inscribed verso: 1930 / Sister Mother Sister Rita / Ansonville, Ont.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Family
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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