What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first major one-person museum exhibition in 1946?

Georgia O'Keeffe's first major one-person museum exhibition in 1946 was a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition surveyed her work rather than presenting only a single recent series.

A retrospective is designed to examine an artist's career across multiple periods, allowing viewers to see changes in subject, technique, and style. For O'Keeffe, that meant bringing together abstractions, enlarged flowers, New York subjects, and works connected with the Southwest.

The exhibition helped secure her place in the history of American modernism. O'Keeffe had already shown extensively through Alfred Stieglitz's galleries, but a major museum presentation carried a different kind of institutional authority. The show is also remembered because it was the first retrospective at MoMA devoted to a woman artist, a milestone in the museum's exhibition history.