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Acrylic Painting Artists

1,045 works at MoMA 8 nationalities

Leading Artists in Acrylic Painting

  1. 269 Christopher Cozier Trinidad and Tobagonian
  2. 48 Herzog & de Meuron, Basel Swiss
  3. 14 Ralph Lemon American
  4. 12 Charline von Heyl German
  5. 12 Neri Oxman American
  6. 12 Nadia Kaabi-Linke Tunisian
  7. 11 Philip Guston American
  8. 10 Carlos Silva Argentine
  9. 10 Richard Tuttle American
  10. 10 Tom Wesselmann American

National Distribution

NationalityWorksShare
American41439.6%
Trinidad and Tobagonian26925.7%
Swiss625.9%
Japanese494.7%
German464.4%
British262.5%
French242.3%
Argentine222.1%

Classification Sub-types

Classification Works Share
Drawing 439 42%
Painting 178 17%
Architecture 149 14.3%
Design 87 8.3%
Print 86 8.2%
Sculpture 41 3.9%
Illustrated Book 24 2.3%
Multiple 16 1.5%

Department Distribution

  • Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 582
  • Architecture & Design (MOMA) — 236
  • Painting & Sculpture (MOMA) — 207
  • Media and Performance (MOMA) — 10
  • Photography (MOMA) — 8
  • Fluxus Collection (MOMA) — 2

Production by Decade

4
0s
1
1880s
1
1910s
6
1920s
4
1930s
4
1940s
10
1950s
146
1960s
133
1970s
107
1980s
73
1990s
441
2000s
88
2010s
27
2020s

Physical Scale Distribution

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)38938.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)36736.2%
Large (1–3 m)20820.5%
Monumental (> 3 m)515%

Artist Birth Cohorts

1
1850–1874
6
1875–1899
43
1900–1924
175
1925–1949
134
1950–1974
28
1975–1999
1
2000–2024

Gender of Artists Working in Acrylic Painting

  • Male — 275
  • Female — 101
  • Transgender woman — 1

On View Now

41 Acrylic Painting works currently installed in Met galleries