Biografie von Rita BRIANSKY (1925)

Birth place: Grajewa, Poland

Addresses: Montreal, Canada

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: Montreal MFA, with Jacques de Tonnancour; also with Alexandre Bercovitch, Montreal; …cole Beaux-Arts Montreal; ASL

Exhibited: Second Int. Biennial Exhib. of Prints, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan, 1960-61; Salon Int. Femme Vichy, France, 1960-61; UNICEF Int., United Nations, New York, 1965; Seventh Calgary Graphics Exhib. Centennial Show, Alta, 1967; Fourth Biennial Exhib. Prints, Invitational Sect., Burnaby, BC, 1967; Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ, 1970s. Awards: third prize, First & Second Nat. Exhib. of Prints, Burnaby, BC, 1960 & 1963; dipl. honneur, Salon Int. Femme Vichy, 1961; Canadian Council grant 1962 & arts award, 1967.

Member: Canadian Painter-Etchers & Engravers; Canadian Soc. Graphic Arts.

Work: Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Art Gallery Hamilton, Ontario; London Art Mus., Ontario; Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario; Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario.

Comments: Publications: illust., Rubaboo 4," 1965; illus., "The pollution reader," 1968; illus., "Ten etchings from Wm. Shakespeare's Sonnets," 1972.

Sources: WW73; E. Kilbourn, "18 print-makers," Canadian Art (1961). "