At which New York museum did Georgia O'Keeffe receive her first solo museum exhibition in 1946?

Georgia O'Keeffe received her first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1946. The exhibition marked a major institutional recognition of her work and made her the first woman artist to receive a retrospective there.

The Museum of Modern Art, commonly called MoMA, had opened in 1929 and became a major center for modern art in the United States. O'Keeffe’s 1946 retrospective presented the breadth of her career rather than defining her only through her flower paintings.

Her work included abstractions, city views, flowers, bones, and landscapes. The exhibition therefore helped establish her as a serious modernist with a varied practice. It also took place shortly before her move to New Mexico became permanent in 1949.

The distinction is sometimes blurred with later honors from other museums. O'Keeffe had already exhibited widely in galleries and had been represented in group shows, but the 1946 MoMA retrospective was the landmark first solo museum exhibition in this context.