English
English
Tickets
Language
Currency
- Museum of Modern Art
- Collections
- Paintings
- Exhibitions
- MoMA Building
- Media & Performance
- MoMA PS1
- Architecture & Design
- Drawings & Prints
- Photography
- Film
- Shopping
- Broadway
- Edge NYC
- Empire State Building
- SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
- Statue of Liberty
- 9/11 Memorial & Museum
- One World Observatory
- American Museum of Natural History
- Top of the Rock
- Intrepid Museum
- Guggenheim Museum
- Rockefeller Center
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Whitney Museum
- Central Park Zoo
- New York Historical Society
- St. Patrick's Cathedral
Contents
Museum of Modern Art NYC | Drawing & Prints Department
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Drawings & Prints
MoMA Drawing & Prints Department
Entry description When NYC MoMA was founded in 1929, the first works to enter the collection were drawings and the prints. Over the years, these two media forms have been displayed together and separately. Since 2013, they have been displayed together within the umbrella of MoMA Drawing and Prints Department.
MoMA Drawings
MoMA Drawings collection consists of over 11,000 artworks on paper from the 20th century. It includes a range of drawings in charcoal, pencil, and ink. Apart from that, you will find gouaches, watercolors, collages, and other medium works as well.
MoMA Prints
MoMA Prints collection comprises over 60,000 works of modern and contemporary prints, books, and multiples. Visitors will find works using traditional techniques such as lithography, woodcutting, screenprinting, and more. There are a few newer works as well such as artists’ books, multiples, digital process, and so on.
Moma Drawing & Prints Collection
- Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, Dear Data: Week 26 (Workspace / A Week of Workspace), 2015
- Dong Gong Alila Yangshuo Hotel, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 2013 to 2017
- Marjetica Potrč, Struggle for Spatial Justice, 2005–2007
- John Baldessari, Untitled, 1989
- Paul Rudolph, Lower Manhattan Expressway Project, New York, New York (Perspective to the East), 1972
- Vivian Browne, Little Men #99, 1967
- Hannah Höch, With Seaweed, 1950
- Bertha Trabich, Flower Arrangement, c. 1937–41
- Charles Demuth, Acrobats, 1919
- Otto Dix, Self-Portrait (Selbstporträt), 1922
Book NYC MoMA Tickets
All Your Questions About MoMA Drawing and Prints Department Answered
Q. When did the MoMA Drawing and Prints Department start?
A. MoMA Drawing and Prints Department began in 2013 and contains both drawing and print works.
Q. How big is the MoMA Drawing and Prints collection?
A. MoMa Drawing and Prints collection features over 11,000 drawing items and 60,000 prints and illustrated books.
Q. What are the different kinds of works that are a part of the MoMA Drawing and Prints collection?
A. As part of the MoMA Drawing and Prints collection, you will find pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolors, collages, etc. There are many prints and illustrated books featuring traditional etching, screenprinting, woodcut, and lithography techniques. A few newer multiples, books, and digital processes are also a part of the collection.
Q. Name some of the artists whose works are a part of the MoMA Drawing and Prints collection.
A. There are many artists whose works can be found in the MoMA Drawing and Prints collection. This includes Louise Bourgeois, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Demuth, Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Bertha Tabrich, and more.