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Artists

This is a list of artists with work in our collection or who have been included in a MoMA exhibition. It is updated continually.

  • Charles Alston

    American, 1907–1977

    2 Exhibitions

  • Associated Press

    United States, established 1846

    22 works online

  • Romare Bearden

    American, 1911–1988

    23 works online

  • Lou Bernstein

    American, 1911–2005

    4 Exhibitions

  • Panelists Ben Shahn [?] and Margaret Bourke-White at the MoMA symposium What Is Modern Photography?. October 20, 1950. Gelatin silver print, 5 1/8 × 7" (13 × 17.8 cm). Photographic Archive, MoMA Activities. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Digital Image © 2022 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Margaret Bourke-White

    American, 1904–1971

    64 works online

  • Sterling Brown

    1 Exhibition

  • Erskine Caldwell

    3 Exhibitions

  • E. Simms Campbell

    1 Exhibition

  • Commodore Records

    1 Exhibition

  • Miguel Covarrubias

    Mexican, 1904–1957

    7 Exhibitions

  • Countee Cullen

    1 Exhibition

  • Louise Dahl-Wolfe

    American, 1895–1989

    8 works online

  • Jack Delano

    American, born Russia. 1914–1997

    10 works online

  • Aaron Douglas

    American, 1899–1979

    1 work online

  • Duke Ellington

    American, 1899–1974

    1 work online

  • Rosalie Gwathmey

    3 Exhibitions

  • Billie Holiday

    1 Exhibition

  • Langston Hughes

    1 Exhibition

  • International News Photos Inc.

    United States, active 1909–1958

    6 works online

  • James Weldon Johnson

    American, 1871–1938

    1 Exhibition

  • William H. Johnson

    American, 1901–1970

    9 works online

  • Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-DIG-ppmsc-00188

    Dorothea Lange

    American, 1895–1965

    313 works online

  • Jacob Lawrence with a panel from the Frederick Douglass series, c. 1939. Harmon Foundation Collection, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

    Jacob Lawrence

    American, 1917–2000

    40 works online

  • Russell Lee

    American, 1903–1986

    34 works online

  • Helen Levitt

    American, 1913–2009

    90 works online

  • Jack Manning

    American, 1920–2001

    3 works online

  • Robert H. McNeill

    American, 1917–2005

    23 works online

  • NAACP

    1 Exhibition

  • Marynn Older Ausubel

    American, 1912–1980

    1 Exhibition

  • Gordon Parks

    American, 1912–2006

    77 works online

  • B.E. Parrish

    1 Exhibition

  • Irving Penn

    American, 1917–2009

    8 works online

  • Sol Prom (Solomon Fabricant)

    1 Exhibition

  • Winold Reiss

    1 Exhibition

  • Ben Shahn

    American, born Lithuania. 1898–1969

    107 works online

  • Aaron Siskind

    American, 1903–1991

    112 works online

  • Marvin Smith

    1 Exhibition

  • Morgan Smith

    1 Exhibition

  • Alex Steinweiss

    3 Exhibitions

  • Paul Schuster Taylor

    American, 1895–1984

    3 Exhibitions

  • Jean Toomer

    American, 1894–1967

    1 Exhibition

  • Charles White at home in Altadena, California, 1971. Courtesy The Charles White Archives

    Charles White

    American, 1918–1979

    15 works online

  • Joshua White

    American

    1 Exhibition

  • Carter G. Woodson

    1 Exhibition

  • Max Yavno

    American, 1911–1985

    3 works online

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