Meyer Ryshpan
{{Short description|Canadian painter and etcher (1898–1985)}}
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| birth_name = Meyer Ryshpan
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|09|14}}
| birth_place = Przedbórz, Congress Poland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|01|06|1898|09|14}}
| death_place = Montreal, Canada
| spouse = {{marriage|Daisy Shlefstein|1922}}
| occupation = Painter, etcher
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Meyer Ryshpan (1898–1985) was a Canadian painter and etcher in Montreal.
Biography and career
Rhyspan was born in Przedbórz, Congress Poland, on 14 September 1898.{{Cite web| title=U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947| website=Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com/| access-date=31 May 2024}} He emigrated to the United States in 1906 and worked on his father's farm for eight years until 1922. He moved to Canada in 1933 and became a painter of genre scenes in Montreal. He was also known for his etchings, some of which were done in colour.{{Cite book| last=MacDonald| first=Colin S.| title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists| publisher=Canadian Paperbacks| location=Ottawa| date=1979| volume=7| page=2401| url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofcana07macd| via=Internet Archive}}
Between 1934 and 1947, Ryshpan exhibited twenty-one works at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts annual spring exhibitions.{{Cite book| last=McMann| first=Evelyn de R.| title=Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, formerly Art Association of Montreal : Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970| publisher=University of Toronto Press| date=1988| page=335| isbn=978-0-8020-2650-7| url=https://archive.org/details/montrealmuseumof0000mcma/mode/2up| via=Internet Archive}} In 1944 and 1946, he took part in exhibitions sponsored by the Young Men and Women's Hebrew Associations.{{Cite news| title=Art Exhibit at YWHA Opens Tomorrow| newspaper=The Gazette| location=Montreal| date=9 December 1944| page=8 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-art-exhibit-at-ywha-opens-to/148469422/| access-date=1 June 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601014335/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-art-exhibit-at-ywha-opens-to/148469422/| archive-date=1 June 2024| url-status=live| via=Newspapers.com {{free access}} }}{{Cite news| title=Many Trends Seen In Exhibit of Art| newspaper=The Gazette| location=Montreal| page=5| url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-many-trends-seen-in-exhibit/148469223/| access-date=1 June 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601014112/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-many-trends-seen-in-exhibit/148469223/| archive-date=1 June 2024| url-status=live| via=Newspapers.com {{free access}} }} In 1955, he was part of a group exhibition at the Eaton's store in Montreal.{{Cite news| title=21 peintres de Montréal exposent chez Eaton| newspaper=La Presse| location=Montreal| date=19 October 1955| page=29| url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2875995?docsearchtext=meyer%20ryshpan| access-date=1 June 2024| language=French| via=Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec}} Ryshpan had a 1958 retrospective at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, consisting of eighty oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, and etchings. Robert Ayre of the Montreal Star considered his drawings and watercolours to be superior to his oils, and that he was at his best depicting people.{{Cite news| last=Ayre| first=Robert| title=Meyer Ryshpan's Retrospective| newspaper=The Montreal Star| date=1 February 1958| page=28| url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-meyer-ryshpans-retros/146978971/| access-date=10 May 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510125637/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-meyer-ryshpans-retros/146978971/| archive-date=10 May 2024| url-status=live| via=Newspapers.com {{free access}} }} Ryshpan died on 6 January 1985 in Montreal.{{Cite news| title=Ryshpan, Myer| newspaper=The Gazette| location=Montreal| date=8 January 1985| page=20| type=obituary| url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-obituary-for-myer-meyer-ry/148278976/| access-date=29 May 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529004503/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-obituary-for-myer-meyer-ry/148278976/| archive-date=29 May 2024| url-status=live| via=Newspapers.com {{free access}} }}
Personal life
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Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:Canadian landscape painters
Category:Artists from Congress Poland
Category:Artists from Montreal
Category:Jewish Canadian painters
Category:Canadian people of Polish-Jewish descent