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The Magazine of Graphic Journalism
Flashback: MoMA’s Artist As Reporter Competition
February 20, 2023
By Fred Lynch
In 1940, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced an unusual contest, “The Artist as Reporter,” with $1,750 in prizes (about $37,000 when adjusted for inflation). It was co-sponsored by the soon-to-debut PM newspaper as “a search for artists who could report the news with brush and pen.”
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Fred Lynch is a professor of illustration at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and an active sketcher with a long time affiliation with Urban Sketchers.
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