Exhibition Momentum records
name: label: Creator
content: Exhibition Momentum (Art group: Chicago, Ill.)
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Art -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Records on reel 4700, frames 14-500 were lent for microfilming in 1991 by Danielle Fox Brinner, daughter of Charles Cox, the last secretary of Exhibition Momentum, and subsequently donated by Brinner in 2004. Records on frames 503 to the end of the reel were donated 1991 by Carol Block, widow[?] of Eugene Block, treasurer of Exhibition Momentum. Typescipts of Daniel Joseph's research material for his thesis, donated by Gabriel P. Weisberg, through Richard Wattenmaker, 1994.
creator: label: Creator
content: Exhibition Momentum (Art group: Chicago, Ill.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art group; Chicago, Ill. Organized in 1948 to protest exhibition policies of the Art Institute of Chicago. Disbanded in 1964.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Illinois
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948-1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.exhimome
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4700 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Records of activities of Exhibition Momentum, 1948-1964, including correspondence; meeting minutes; drafts of statements of purpose, history and press releases; newspaper clippings, publicity material; typescript of Daniel Joseph's masters thesis, "Career and Social Protest: An Analysis of a Chicago Art Group," The University of Chicago, Dec. 1950, and Joseph's research material for his thesis including transcripts of interviews and panel discussions and typescripts of letters, 1949-1950; and financial records, 1956-1957. Three binders, 1948-1950, 1951-1953, and 1956 and 1964, contain minutes of meetings regarding the constitution, possible exhibitions, juried shows, selection of committees and officers, membership rules, and statements of purpose, correspondence, writings by members and miscellany.