MAM Rio: Origin and Construction

Table 3: The Original Nucleus

Appointment of the Council, directors and creation of the membership programmes

1. Members of the Deliberative Council present at the inaugural session: Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso, Aloysio de Paula, Aníbal M. Machado, Antônio Augusto Moniz Vianna, Antônio Gallotti,  Antônio de Pádua Chagas Freitas, Carlos Amélio de Figueiredo, Carlos Flexa Ribeiro, Demósthenes Madureira de Pinho, Hélio Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos, Henrique E. Mindlin, José Simeão Leal, Lauro Salazar Regueira, Leonídio Ribeiro, Márcio de Mello Franco Alves, Maria Martins, Pedro Pereira Filho, Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maya, Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade and Wladimir Murtinho, 1 October 1958.
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2. Membership Campaign, 13 August 1952. In the image, the winners of the campaign for new members: Elvira Le Blanc, in first place, Dora Castro Menezes, second, and Jayme Maurício, third. By their side, their awards: artworks by Margaret Spence, Ivan Serpa and Emygdio de Barros.
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3. Meeting of the Deliberative Council attended by the following members: Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maya, Francisco Clementino de San Tiago Dantas, Niomar Moniz Sodré, Carmen Portinho, Carlos Flexa Ribeiro, Carlos Amélio de Figueiredo, Beata Vettori, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, Aloysio by Paula, Roberto Marinho, Leonidio Ribeiro, Aloysio de Salles, Jorge Ludolf, João Soares Sampaio, Paulo Bittencourt, Aguinaldo Boulitreau Fragoso, João Guimarães Rosa and Paulo Carneiro, 9 January 1953.
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4. Election of the 200 delegates and reform of the statutes, 19 September 1953. In the image: Abraham Palatnik, Aloysio de Paula, Ivan Serpa, Lygia Pape, Henrique E. Mindlin, Antonio Carlos, Paschoal Carlos Magno, Maria José Monteiro de Carvalho (Zazi) and Niomar Moniz Sodré.
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5. 1st General Assembly of Members, 10 September 1953. In the image: Pedro Pereira Filho, Jayme Maurício, Jorge Lacerda, Sérgio Magalhães, Simeão Leal, Carmen Portinho, Ana Luiza Arruda Botelho and Paulo Moura Brasil.
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6. First meeting at the Construtora Nacional Shed, 1955. In the image: Gustavo Capanema, Aloysio de Salles, Niomar Moniz Sodré, Carlos Flexa Ribeiro, Maurício Nabuco, Alim Pedro, Francisco Clementino de San Tiago Dantas, Carmen Portinho, Pedro Pereira, Maria Martins, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Simeão Leal, Walther Moreira Salles and Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho.
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7. Architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy and the president of MAM Rio, Ambassador Maurício Nabuco, at the Deliberative Council meeting, 2 January 1958.
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8. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Victor de Carvalho and Fayga Ostrower, during the General Assembly of Members for the election of new delegates and members of the Deliberative Council, 26 September 1958.
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9. Cover and inside pages of membership programme booklet, 1950s.
   
   
10. Cover and inside pages of the International Membership Campaign brochure, including information about the MAM Rio building, the construction costs and the composition of the Board of Directors and the Deliberative Council, 1957.

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