The Museum of Modern Art held Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum exhibition in 1946.
The exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and marked an important institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's career. By then, she had already built a substantial reputation through gallery exhibitions and critical attention, especially for her flowers, New York scenes, and New Mexico subjects.
The retrospective arrived shortly after the death of Alfred Stieglitz, who had been a major supporter and promoter of her work. Its timing helped establish O'Keeffe as an artist whose importance extended beyond the gallery world associated with Stieglitz.
A solo museum exhibition is different from a group show or a gallery presentation. O'Keeffe had exhibited publicly before 1946, including at Stieglitz's gallery 291 in 1916. The Museum of Modern Art exhibition was significant because it presented her work as the subject of a dedicated museum survey.