Georgia O'Keeffe's first major museum retrospective opened at the Whitney Museum in 1970.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York organized the retrospective, giving O'Keeffe a broad institutional survey of her career. By then, she had worked for more than half a century across abstraction, flowers, architecture, New York scenes, bones, and Southwestern landscapes.
The exhibition confirmed her importance as a major American modernist and helped renew public attention to the full range of her work. O'Keeffe had already been widely exhibited, especially through Alfred Stieglitz's galleries, but a museum retrospective carried a different kind of historical authority.
The date is sometimes confused with later exhibitions or with the 1976 autobiography Georgia O'Keeffe, written with Judith K. O. Chasnoff. The Whitney retrospective took place in 1970, when O'Keeffe was 82.