MoMA Artists Index — 1987
| Artist | Nationality | Works at MoMA | On view | Primary department |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various Unidentified Artists | — | 73 | 0 | Photography |
| Walasse Ting | American | 56 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Gottfried Honegger | Swiss | 48 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Helmut A. P. Grieshaber | German | 41 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Various Artists | Nationality unknown | 38 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Leonel Góngora | Colombian | 33 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Nicholas Krushenick | American | 32 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| William Brice | American | 30 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Robert Kushner | American | 25 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Sahlan Momo | Italian | 21 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Angelo Savelli | Italian | 17 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Heinz Mack | German | 15 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Edward Ranney | American | 14 | 0 | Photography |
| Hans Hartung | French | 13 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Richard Smith | British | 12 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| James Dow | American | 12 | 0 | Photography |
| Ernest Trova | American | 11 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Giorgio Cavallon | American | 10 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Werner Drewes | American | 9 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Ilya Bolotowsky | American | 9 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| William Bradley | American | 9 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Chema Cobo | Spanish | 9 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Leo Kainradl | Austrian | 9 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Elaine Mayes | American | 8 | 0 | Photography |
| Louis Schanker | American | 8 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Lynn Chadwick | British | 8 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Zush (Alberto Porta) | Spanish | 8 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Peter Max | American | 7 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Ferdinand Hodler | Swiss | 7 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Kumi Sugaï | Japanese | 6 | 1 | Drawings & Prints |
| Alan Davie | British | 6 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Benno Friedman | American | 6 | 0 | Photography |
| David Marshall Graham | American | 6 | 0 | Photography |
| Shalom Gorewitz | American | 6 | 0 | Media and Performance |
| Otto Baumberger | Swiss | 6 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Fritz Bühler | Swiss | 6 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Richard Kleinberg | American | 5 | 0 | Photography |
| Ian Breakwell | British | 5 | 0 | Media and Performance |
| Brooks Williams | American | 5 | 0 | Media and Performance |
| Rudi Tröger | German | 5 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Deborah Fleming Caffery | American | 5 | 0 | Photography |
| Linda Connor | American | 4 | 0 | Photography |
| Ron Davis | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Balcomb Greene | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Gertrude Greene | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Alice Trumbull Mason | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| William H. Rau | American | 4 | 0 | Photography |
| Michel Sauer | German | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Peter Booth | Australian | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Gerhard Altenbourg | German | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Renato Guttuso | Italian | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Tom Holland | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Max Huber | Italian | 4 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Jan Toorop | Dutch | 4 | 0 | Architecture & Design |
| Paul Kelpe | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Vaclav Vytlacil | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Byron Browne | American | 4 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Bea Nettles | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Frida Kahlo | Mexican | 3 | 3 | Painting & Sculpture |
| Carl Holty | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Charles G. Shaw | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Rick Dingus | American | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Sandi Fellman | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Joan Hernández Pijuan | Spanish | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Agam (Yaacov Agam) | Israeli | 3 | 0 | Painting & Sculpture |
| John Opper | American | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Patrick Faigenbaum | French | 3 | 0 | Photography |
| Valery Gerlovin | Russian | 3 | 0 | Drawings & Prints |
| Dietrich Lubs | German | 3 | 0 | Architecture & Design |