MoMA Artists Index — 1981
| Artist | Nationality | Works at MoMA | On view | Primary department |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Thomson | British | 264 | 0 | Photography |
| William Bradford | American | 142 | 0 | Photography |
| George P. Critcherson | American | 142 | 0 | Photography |
| John L. Dunmore | American | 142 | 0 | Photography |
| Paul Delvaux | Belgian | 78 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Maxime Du Camp | French | 41 | 0 | Photography |
| James Boynton | American | 41 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Alexander Liberman | American | 39 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| John Edward Dowell | American | 28 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Andrei Voznesensky | Russian | 27 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Richard Nonas | American | 26 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Bill Arnold | American | 26 | 0 | Photography |
| John Marin | American | 25 | 1 | Drawings & Prints |
| Jirí Balcar | Czech | 23 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Leon Polk Smith | American | 22 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Amedeo Modigliani | Italian | 22 | 1 | Drawings & Prints |
| Per Arnoldi | Danish | 18 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Donald Saff | American | 17 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| William H. Bell | American | 17 | 0 | Photography |
| Pietro Consagra | Italian | 15 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Helene Fesenmaier | American | 15 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Michael Kidner | British | 11 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Isabel Bishop | American | 10 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Otto Natzler | American | 9 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| William Zorach | American | 9 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Joseph Breitenbach | American | 9 | 0 | Photography |
| William G. Larson | American | 8 | 0 | Photography |
| Mark Stock | American | 8 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Craig Kauffman | American | 7 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Jan Matulka | American | 7 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Paul A. McDonough | American | 6 | 0 | Photography |
| Bert Stern | American | 5 | 0 | Photography |
| Nathan I. Felde | American | 5 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Reed Estabrook | American | 5 | 0 | Photography |
| William Bonnell | American | 5 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Mario Giacomelli | Italian | 4 | 0 | Photography |
| Karl Struss | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| William Stephen Sutton | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Max Yavno | American | 3 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Wolf von dem Bussche | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Henri Pribik | Czech | 3 | 0 | Photography |