Georgia O'Keeffe became the first female artist to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented Georgia O'Keeffe, a retrospective exhibition, in 1946. The show recognized the breadth of her work, including abstractions, flowers, city views, and landscapes.
The exhibition was organized during a major period of institutional recognition for O'Keeffe. Her work had already been shown widely through Alfred Stieglitz's galleries and other exhibitions, but the MoMA retrospective gave her career a particularly prominent museum platform.
A retrospective differs from a single-work exhibition because it surveys an artist's career or a substantial span of it. O'Keeffe's 1946 show is often cited as an important milestone for women artists in major American museums.