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BRIANSKY, Rita
- Naissance
- Grajewo, Poland, 1925
- Notice biographique
- Born in Poland, Briansky immigrated to Canada in 1929, first to Ansonville, Ontario, and, in 1941, to Montreal. There, she attended Baron Byng High School and studied with Anne Savage and Alexander Bercovitch. She studied at the Art Association of Montreal from 1944-46 with Jacques de Tonnancour, and later at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal. She also studied at the Art Students League in New York. She was a member of the group The Art Workshop. She worked in a wide range of media: paintings, drawings, watercolours, pastels and prints. Between 1944 and1946 she exhibited at the Spring Exhibition of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. She participated in a number of international biennials and she taught at the Centre des arts visuels in Montreal and also at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. She exhibited her work throughout Canada. Briansky's sketchbooks are held in the Jewish Public Library ArchivesHer works are part of over sixty permanent collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Mendel Art Gallery, the Musée du Québec, and the National Gallery of Canada.
- Médias
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Etudes
- Art Association of Montreal (Sous la direction de Anne Savage, Alexander Bercovitch)
- Art Students' League, New York
- Associations
- Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers
- Canadian Society of Graphic Art
- Lieux de conservation des dossiers et archives
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- University of Manitoba - Architecture and Fine Arts Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
- Jewish Public Library Archives, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Documents sur l'artiste- Learning to See: The Sketchbooks of Rita Briansky. Montreal, QC: Jewish Public Library, 2023
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1I7PcR5xw. - Bolla-Paquet Corine. “Rita Briansky : Fragments De Pologne Ou La Peinture Comme Géographie Du Désastre.” Vie des Arts 40.164 (Fall 1996): 70-71
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/53362ac. - Concordia University. The New York Connection: Direction New York. Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University Sir George Williams Art Galleries, 1982.
- Fidelman, Charlie.. "Rita Briansky Makes a Painful Journey into Past: The Return to Her Native Poland Inspires a Series of Paintings that Became a Time of Mourning." The Gazette The Gazette (Montreal) 16 Jan 1997: F16.
- Giordan, Henriette.. "Rita Briansky: Du Vêtement Comme Portrait [Rita Briansky: Clothes as Portraits]." Magazin'art 7.3 (1995: 81-84.
- Heller, Jules and Nancy. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century New York: Garland, 1995.
- Lefebvre, Germain, Landori, Eva and Elie, Robert. Salon international de la Gravure : Montréal 1971/ International Exhibition of Graphics : Montréal 1971 Montreal, QC: Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1971.
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009.
- Scott Susan G and Rita Briansky. My Name Is Rita Briansky : A Series of Autobiographical Fragments. Montreal, Quebec: Blurb.com, 2011.
- Trépanier, Esther. Jewish Painters of Montreal: Witnesses of Their Time, 1930 - 1948. Montréal, Quebec: Les Éditions de l'Homme, 2008.
- Trepanier, Esther and Landry, Pierre. Femmes artistes du XXe siecle au Quebec: Oeuvres du Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec Quebec, Quebec: Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, 2010..
Documents rédigés par l'artiste- Vineberg Ethel and Rita Briansky.. Grandmother Came from Dworitz: A Jewish Love Story. Toronto, Ont.: Tundra Books, 1987.
