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|  A painter and printmaker who lived in Montreal Quebec, Rita Prezament Briansky did etchings to illustrate a 1972 publication of William Shakespeare's Sonnets. She also illustrated The Polution Reader, published in 1968.
Briansky took her art training at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts with Jacques de Tonnancour; with Alexandre Bercovitch; at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Montreal; and the Art Students League of New York. She was a member of the Canadian Painter-Etchers & Engravers; and the Canadian Society Graphic Arts.
Exhibitions:
Second International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan, 1960-61
Salon International Femme Vichy, France, 1960-61
UNICEF International, United Nations, New York, 1965
Seventh Calgary Graphics Exhibition Centennial Show, Alta, 1967
Fourth Biennial Exhibition Prints, Invitational Sect., Burnaby, BC, 1967
Waddington Galleries, Montreal, Province of Quebec, 1970s
Awards: third prize, First & Second National Exhibition of Prints, Burnaby, BC, 1960 & 1963; diploma honneur, Salon International Femme Vichy, 1961; Canadian Council grant 1962 & arts award, 1967.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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