Artist Monograph

Robert Longo, American

American, born 1953

Wikidata · Getty ULAN

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	6	46.2%
Drawing	5	38.5%
Acrylic Painting	1	7.7%
Gouache	1	7.7%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	12	92.3%
Painting & Sculpture	1	7.7%

Production by Decade

11

1980s

1

1990s

1

2000s

Classification Types

Print — 6
Drawing — 6
Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	6	60%
Large (1–3 m)	4	40%

Range: 30.5 cm → 260.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1983	2
1985	1
1986	1
1989	2
1991	1
1992	2
2001	1
2005	1
2017	1
2018	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 13 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled Drawing Acc. 220.1992	1981	Charcoal and graphite on paper	29 5/8 x 21 3/8" (75.2 x 54.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Metro Pictures
Untitled Drawing Acc. 221.1992	1981	Charcoal and graphite on paper	29 5/8 x 21 3/8" (75.2 x 54.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Metro Pictures
Untitled from the series "Men in the Cities" Drawing Acc. 1362.2001	(1981-87)	Synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, pastel, gouache, and pencil on paper	50 x 30" (127 x 76.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of an anonymous donor
Men In The Cities: Final Life Drawing Acc. 1500.2018	1982	Pencil on transparentized paper on paper	9 1/8 × 12" (23.2 × 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Pressure Painting Acc. 269.1983.a-b	1982-83	Painted wood with lacquer finish, and charcoal, graphite, and ink on paper, in two parts	102 3/8 x 90 x 36 1/2" (260 x 228.6 x 92.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President
Mark Print Acc. 561.1983	1983	Lithograph	irreg composition 29 15/16 x 15" (76 x 38.1 cm) sheet 36 11/16 x 21 1/8" (93.2 x 53.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Untitled (Study for Pressure) Drawing Acc. 1418.2016	1983	Graphite, watercolor, colored pencil, and acrylic on two sheets, double-sided	25 3/4 × 23 1/4" (65.4 × 59 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Patricia and Richard Wier, Chicago, Illinois
Eric Print Acc. 20.1985	1984	Lithograph	irreg composition 58 3/4 x 25 3/16" (149.3 x 64 cm) sheet 67 15/16 x 39 1/16" (172.7 x 99.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Charles A. Dana Foundation Fund
Men in the Cities (Eric) Print Acc. 272.1989	1985	Lithograph	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York
Men in the Cities (Gretchen) Print Acc. 273.1989	1985	Lithograph	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York
Arena Brains Print Acc. 188.1986	1986	Lithograph and offset lithograph	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Untitled, II from the series Men in the Cities Print Acc. 113.1991	1990	Lithograph	irreg. composition 13 3/8 x 29 7/16" (34 x 74.8 cm) sheet 25 15/16 x 39 15/16" (65 x 101.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Seibu Department Stores, Ltd.
Russian Bomb/Semipalatinsk Drawing Acc. 2252.2005	2003	Charcoal on paper	97 1/2 x 71" (247.7 x 180.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift