Georgia O'Keeffe had her first major museum retrospective at MoMA in 1946.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized Georgia O'Keeffe, a retrospective exhibition, in 1946. It was the first retrospective at MoMA devoted to a woman artist, marking an important institutional milestone.
The exhibition surveyed O'Keeffe’s career rather than presenting only her flower paintings. Her work included abstractions, city views, landscapes, and paintings of bones and other natural forms.
The retrospective opened shortly after Alfred Stieglitz’s death in 1946. O'Keeffe had been closely associated with his New York gallery exhibitions, but the MoMA show helped establish her reputation within a major museum context independent of a commercial gallery. The year is sometimes confused with the dates of later O'Keeffe retrospectives, including exhibitions held after her move to New Mexico.