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Lithography Artists

22,569 works at MoMA 8 nationalities

Leading Artists in Lithography

  1. 997 Jean Dubuffet French
  2. 440 Pablo Picasso Spanish
  3. 423 Pierre Bonnard French
  4. 275 Pierre Alechinsky Belgian
  5. 244 Jasper Johns American
  6. 237 Joan Miró Spanish
  7. 209 Natalia Goncharova Russian
  8. 205 Louise Bourgeois American
  9. 201 George Grosz American
  10. 200 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French

National Distribution

NationalityWorksShare
American946041.9%
French433719.2%
German15396.8%
Spanish9384.2%
Russian8683.8%
British7533.3%
Italian5782.6%
Swiss4051.8%

Classification Sub-types

Classification Works Share
Print 11479 50.9%
Illustrated Book 6446 28.6%
Design 4139 18.3%
Periodical 151 0.7%
Photograph 131 0.6%
Architecture 72 0.3%
Drawing 53 0.2%
Multiple 30 0.1%

Department Distribution

  • Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 18166
  • Drawings and Prints (MET) — 10504
  • Architecture & Design (MOMA) — 4217
  • Photography (MOMA) — 138
  • Photographs (MET) — 56
  • Fluxus Collection (MOMA) — 22
  • Film (MOMA) — 22
  • Media and Performance (MOMA) — 4
  • Robert Lehman Collection (MET) — 3
  • Musical Instruments (MET) — 3

Production by Decade

174
0s
2
1820s
7
1840s
5
1850s
9
1860s
29
1870s
65
1880s
904
1890s
520
1900s
1391
1910s
1585
1920s
1688
1930s
2076
1940s
2046
1950s
6125
1960s
2203
1970s
1532
1980s
1145
1990s
809
2000s
210
2010s
44
2020s

Physical Scale Distribution

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)709633.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)1259459.2%
Large (1–3 m)15817.4%
Monumental (> 3 m)160.1%

Artist Birth Cohorts

1
1775–1799
7
1800–1824
28
1825–1849
189
1850–1874
496
1875–1899
642
1900–1924
840
1925–1949
388
1950–1974
60
1975–1999

Gender of Artists Working in Lithography

  • Male — 2,412
  • Female — 457
  • Male (trans? ftm?) — 1

Met Cultural Context

CultureCountryMet Records
FrenchFrance3
French2
Paris: [privately printed], 1903 (edition of 90)1
West Bengal, Calcutta1
India, West Bengal1

On View Now

31 Lithography works currently installed in Met galleries

Notable Highlights

Civil War

Lemercier & Cie.|Edouard Manet|Lemercier & Cie. · 1871–73, published 1874

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Affiches Américaines, Charles Lévy · 1891

Collection Julien Gréau: verrerie antique, emaillerie et poterie appartenent à M. J. Pierpont Morgan

Wilhelm Froehner · 1903

Paris: [privately printed], 1903 (edition of 90)