The Museum of Modern Art data includes information about the individual artists included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It does not include information about works for artist collectives or companies. The data was made available by MoMA itself and downloaded in December 2020.

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Format

A data frame with 10964 rows and 11 variables. Each row represents an individual artist in the MoMA collection.

artist

name

country

country of origin

birth

year of birth

death

year of death

alive

whether or not the artist was living at the time of data collection (December 2020)

genx

whether or not the artist is Gen X or younger, ie. born during 1965 or after

gender

gender identity (as perceived by MoMA employees)

department

MoMA department in which the artist's works most frequently appear

count

number of the artist's works in the MoMA collection

year_acquired_min

first year MoMA acquired one of the artist's works

year_acquired_max

most recent year MoMA acquired one of the artist's works