The Museum of Modern Art’s 1946 retrospective was presented under the title Georgia O'Keeffe.
MoMA’s exhibition was a comprehensive institutional survey rather than a show devoted only to one subject. By bringing together works from different stages of her career, it highlighted the range of her experiments with abstraction, flowers, architecture, landscapes, and other forms.
The retrospective also helped define O'Keeffe’s place in the history of American modernism. She had already received critical attention and commercial success, but a major museum survey gave her work broader historical and institutional visibility. It was an important milestone for an American woman artist working independently in a field often described through male European and American figures.
This question is easy to confuse with the names of later exhibitions or with descriptions of her style. The institution’s exhibition title was simply her name, not a thematic phrase such as “The New Mexico Years.”