MoMA Online Collection — Artists Index
Citation
The Museum of Modern Art. “Artists” — searchable index of artists represented in the MoMA online collection. Accessed 2026-04-19. https://www.moma.org/collection/artists
Individual artist pages follow the pattern https://www.moma.org/artists/<numeric-id> and carry MoMA’s own biographical summary (birth/death dates, nationality, active years) alongside the museum’s holdings of that artist’s work.
Relevance
Tier-1 institutional reference for the dates and nationality of photographers represented in MoMA’s own collection — a high proportion of The Family of Man contributors. The MoMA artist page is the curatorial institution’s working biographical record and is the reference point for internal attribution in data/photographs.csv and data/photographers.csv where a MoMA collection record exists.
Key excerpts / pages
- Searchable by name and by medium (photography filter).
- Each artist page carries the museum’s own short biography and a linked view of the works held.
Notes
- This entry is an index-level pointer; per-artist pages are cited as needed in row
notesbut are not duplicated as separate source files for every photographer in the seed batch — doing so would multiply ~273 thin stub files for the full catalog. Deeper per-artist MoMA citations should be added when an individualresearch/photographers/<slug>.mdarticle is written. - Perspective: institutional / curatorial.
- Re-verification 2026-04-24 (issue #9):
https://www.moma.org/artists/returned 403 andhttps://collections.moma.org/returned ECONNREFUSED to programmatic WebFetch — MoMA’s public web surface was not accessible to this round’s automated fetches. The page is widely cited in prior scholarship; verification must be done through a browser session. Flaggedverified: falsepending Chrome-session confirmation.