Georgia O'Keeffe had her first solo museum exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1946.
The exhibition marked a major institutional recognition of her career. By that time, O'Keeffe had already developed a distinctive body of work involving enlarged flowers, abstract forms, New York architecture, animal bones, and New Mexico landscapes. The Museum of Modern Art exhibition helped confirm her position as a leading American modernist.
O'Keeffe had shown extensively before 1946, including exhibitions organized by Alfred Stieglitz, but a solo museum exhibition represented a different level of critical and public acknowledgment. The date is sometimes confused with the years of her first New York gallery exhibitions or with later major retrospectives. Her work was also included in important museum collections and group exhibitions, but the 1946 MoMA show is specifically remembered as her first solo museum exhibition.