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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
Press release. "Friends for Spreading Jewish Art"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79248
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 paper sheet ; 27.7 x 21.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_23
- Date
- 1933
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 paper sheet ; 27.7 x 21.5cm
- Date
- 1933
- Fonds No.
- 1099
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00058
- Item No.
- 1099_058_23
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Translated text: Friends for Spreading Jewish Art / Harry Daniels - Artist / Album with 6 Paintings / Hershel Wolowsky
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
Poster. Declaration of the Industrial Union of Needle Trades Workers
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79270
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 flyer : paper ; 31.0 x 43.9cm
- Fonds No.
- 1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_45
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1950]
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 flyer : paper ; 31.0 x 43.9cm
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1950]
- Fonds No.
- 1099
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00058
- Item No.
- 1099_058_45
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Physical Condition
- Paper has been laminated.
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- French
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - YIFO
- Yiddish Folk University
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
Photographic reproductions of Rita Briansky's work, "Portraits"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67938
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 40 photographs : col. ; 10.5 x 15.0 or smaller
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 6; 018311
- Date
- 1942 - 2000
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 40 photographs : col. ; 10.5 x 15.0 or smaller
- Date
- 1942 - 2000
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 6
- Item No.
- 018311
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Album includes reproductions of pastel drawings and painted portraits. Some of these works are photographed with the model.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Painting
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Photographic reproductions of Rita Briansky's work, "Portraits"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67939
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 66 photographs : b&w and col. ; 10.5 x 15.5cm or smaller
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 6; 018312
- Date
- [ca. 1942 to 2005]
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 66 photographs : b&w and col. ; 10.5 x 15.5cm or smaller
- Date
- [ca. 1942 to 2005]
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 6
- Item No.
- 018312
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Album includes painted and drawn portraits made by Rita Briansky. Some of the images are photographed with the model.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Fine Arts
- Painting
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Photographic documentation of paintings, "Portraits"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67967
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 23 photographs : col. ; 16.9 x 11.4cm or smaller
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 6; 018338
- Date
- 1942 - 2001
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 23 photographs : col. ; 16.9 x 11.4cm or smaller
- Date
- 1942 - 2001
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 6
- Item No.
- 018338
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Ths album consists of documentation of Rita Briansky's portraits. It also includes documentation of Joseph Prezament's work and a candid image on one of Briansky's subjects.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Painting
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Photographic reproductions of Rita Brianksy's work, "Paintings."
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67942
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 62 photographs : col. ; 17.0 x 11.5cm or smaller
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 6; 018315
- Date
- 1944 - 2003
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 62 photographs : col. ; 17.0 x 11.5cm or smaller
- Date
- 1944 - 2003
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 6
- Item No.
- 018315
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- This album consists of photographic reproductions of Rita Briansky's paintings. This includes landscapes, still lifes, musicians and urban scenes.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Painting
- Fine Arts
- Artists
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Flyer. Exhibition of Paintings by Meyer Ryshpan
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79268
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 poster : paper ; 28.0 x 11.1cm
- Fonds No.
- 1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_43
- Date
- [between 1947-1969]
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 poster : paper ; 28.0 x 11.1cm
- Date
- [between 1947-1969]
- Fonds No.
- 1099
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00058
- Item No.
- 1099_058_43
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- Yiddish
- English
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
Correspondence.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67807
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 2; 00021
- Date
- 1949 - 1969
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Date
- 1949 - 1969
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 2
- File No.
- 00021
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- This file contains correspondence regarding the artist's participation in various exhibitions, donations and auctions. Material includes correspondence from institutions such as Montreal's Musee d'Art Compemporain and the Canadian Peace Research Institute, as well as from the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Fine Arts
- Painting
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbooks, "1949 - 50, Montreal, Winnipeg"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67855
- 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
Sketchbook, "1949"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67856
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite and watercolour
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00072
- Date
- 1949
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : graphite and watercolour
- Date
- 1949
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00072
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Brianksy
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Artists
- Fine Arts
- Drawings
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbooks, "Winnigpeg - Mtl, 1950 - 51"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67854
- 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, "1951 - 1952 Montreal"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67853
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and conte
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 1; 00069
- Date
- 1951 - 1952
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 sketchbook : pen and ink, graphite, and conte
- Date
- 1951 - 1952
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00069
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Rita Brianksy
- Name Access
- Briansky, Rita
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Fine Arts
- Artists
- Drawings
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Bibliographical reference publications.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67873
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 35 titles
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 5; 00087
- Date
- 1951 - 2010
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 35 titles
- Date
- 1951 - 2010
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 5
- File No.
- 00087
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- This file contains publications that include or reference Rita Briansky's. It consists predominantly of journals, catalogues and magazines.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Artists
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "1952 Bethune, Joe, Richard & bike"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67858
- 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
Newspaper clippings.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67804
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 4; 00018
- Date
- 1953 - 1987
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual material
- Date
- 1953 - 1987
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 4
- File No.
- 00018
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- This file contains newspaper clippings that review or cite the work of Rita Briansky.
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Artists
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Sketchbook, "1953-1954 Jean-Talon Market"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67857
- 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
Flyer. YIFO / Jewish Public Library, Exhibition "The Third Jewish Destruction in Print and Art"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn79269
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 flyer : paper ; 28.0 x 11.1cm
- Fonds No.
- 1099; 1; 00058; 1099_058_44
- Date
- 1953
- Collection
- Sholem Krishtalka Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 flyer : paper ; 28.0 x 11.1cm
- Date
- 1953
- Fonds No.
- 1099
- Series No.
- 1
- File No.
- 00058
- Item No.
- 1099_058_44
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Text includes (translated from Yiddish): YIFO / Jewish Public Library / 4099 Esplanade / Saturday April 25 - Saturday May 2 1953 / Exhibit - the Third Jewish Destruction in Print and Art / Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Subjects
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec) - YIFO
- Yiddish Folk University
- Fine Arts
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Documents
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
Copy slide of Dr. Norman Bethune painting.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn67933
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 positive : col. ; 10.2 x 8.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1291; 6; 018307
- Date
- 1955
- Collection
- Rita Briansky Fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 positive : col. ; 10.2 x 8.5cm
- Date
- 1955
- Fonds No.
- 1291
- Series No.
- 6
- Item No.
- 018307
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- For textual information regarding this painting, see file 00004 in the Rita Briansky Fonds
- Subjects
- Briansky, Rita. 1925 -
- Fine Arts
- Painting
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
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