At which museum was Georgia O'Keeffe the first woman to receive a retrospective exhibition?

Georgia O'Keeffe was the first woman to receive a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York gave O'Keeffe a retrospective in 1946. The exhibition recognized the importance of her work across several decades, including abstractions, flowers, city views, and New Mexico subjects. It was a major institutional milestone for a woman artist in the United States.

O'Keeffe had already achieved substantial recognition through exhibitions organized by Alfred Stieglitz and through her own growing reputation. The MoMA retrospective nevertheless marked a broader museum acknowledgment of her importance within American modernism.

The fact concerns a retrospective at MoMA, not her first exhibition there or the first retrospective of any woman at every museum. O'Keeffe later received many honors and museum exhibitions, but the 1946 MoMA event is the milestone associated with this distinction.