At which museum did Georgia O'Keeffe have the first solo exhibition by a woman in 1946?

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Georgia O'Keeffe had the first solo exhibition by a woman at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946. The New York museum presented a retrospective of her work under the title Georgia O'Keeffe.

The exhibition was a major institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's importance to American modernism. It included work from different stages of her career, including abstractions, flowers, city scenes, and landscapes. The show also helped separate her artistic reputation from the publicity surrounding her marriage to Alfred Stieglitz.

MoMA was founded in 1929 and became one of the leading museums for modern and contemporary art. The Whitney, Guggenheim, and Metropolitan Museum are also prominent New York institutions, but none is the museum associated with this particular 1946 milestone.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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