At which New York museum was Georgia O'Keeffe's 1970 retrospective presented?

Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1970 retrospective was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Whitney organized the retrospective in New York to survey O’Keeffe’s career. By bringing together works from different decades, the exhibition emphasized the breadth of her practice rather than reducing her to one familiar subject.

The Whitney Museum of American Art specializes in American art and was founded by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It opened in 1931 after Whitney’s efforts to support American artists and provide a dedicated public institution for their work.

The retrospective was a major recognition of O’Keeffe’s standing in American art. It also helped frame her career within the broader history of American modernism, alongside developments in abstraction, photography, architecture, and regional art. The museum’s name is sometimes confused with the Museum of Modern Art, but the O’Keeffe retrospective was held at the Whitney.