At which New York museum did Georgia O'Keeffe become the first woman artist to receive a retrospective in 1946?

Georgia O'Keeffe became the first woman artist to receive a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1946.

The exhibition was organized by director Alfred H. Barr Jr. and marked a major institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's place in American modernism. A retrospective surveys an artist's career rather than focusing on only one period or series.

By the mid-1940s, O'Keeffe was known for enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, desert landscapes, bones, and abstract forms. The MoMA exhibition helped bring these varied bodies of work together for a broad museum audience.

The distinction refers to the Museum of Modern Art, commonly abbreviated MoMA, not the similarly famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also concerns a retrospective, rather than her first individual exhibition anywhere.