MoMA Artists Index — 1979
| Artist | Nationality | Works at MoMA | On view | Primary department |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aristide Maillol | French | 579 | 1 | Drawings & Prints |
| Eugene Berman | American | 102 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Doris Ulmann | American | 95 | 0 | Photography |
| Joseph Dankowski | American | 74 | 0 | Photography |
| José Chávez Morado | Mexican | 38 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Richard Hunt | American | 32 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Kirsten Hawthorne | American | 30 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Antonio Segui | Argentine | 26 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Esteban Vicente | American | 23 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Ronald Markman | American | 23 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Giorgio Morandi | Italian | 22 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Francis Wishart | British | 21 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Sonia Gechtoff | American | 20 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Umberto Boccioni | Italian | 20 | 2 | Drawings & Prints |
| Michael Baldwin | British | 12 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Terry Atkinson | British | 12 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Gustav Klimt | Austrian | 11 | 2 | Drawings & Prints |
| Richard Estes | American | 11 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Walter Darby Bannard | American | 11 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Laura Grisi | Italian | 10 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Giuseppe Spagnulo | Italian | 9 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Robert Birmelin | American | 9 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Austin Cooper | British | 9 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Irene Rice Pereira | American | 6 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Loren MacIver | American | 6 | 0 | Painting & Sculpture |
| Peter Young | American | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Preston Dickinson | American | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Kay Sage | American | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Alan Green | British | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| John Clem Clarke | American | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Robert Stanley | American | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Steven Cortright | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Michael Heindorff | German | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Patricia Johanson | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Clyfford Still | American | 3 | 1 | Painting & Sculpture |
| Grant Wood | American | 3 | 1 | Drawings & Prints |
| Leonid (Leonid Berman) | American | 3 | 0 | Painting & Sculpture |
| James Wallace Black | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| John Edward Devine | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Eugene Richards | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Francisco Zúñiga | Mexican | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Suzanne R. Dworsky | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Frank Hazenplug | American | 3 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Marcos Irizarry | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Oscar Bailey | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Kenneth Koch | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Akira Kurosaki | Japanese | 3 | 0 | Media and Performance |