My project surveys the development of Jansons History of Art across its eight editions as well as Gardners Art Through the Ages through its sixteen editions looking particularly at the change in artist demographic through time. Additionally this paper investigates which external variables such as artist gender ethnicity race nationality number of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney and if any predict the magnitude of an artists inclusion in art history survey texts. I conduct data analysis to assess the demographic representation of artists through editions of Jansons History of Art and Gardners Art Through the Ages a proxy for the art history survey. I compare artist demographics through editions of Janson and Gardner. My findings indicate that coverage of minority artists (defined as non-white and/or Hispanic or Latinx and/or female) increases across editions of Jansons History of Art and Gardners Art Through the Ages but remains negligible compared to white male non-Hispanic or Latinx artists.
