What was Georgia O’Keeffe’s first major retrospective exhibition venue in 1970?

Georgia O’Keeffe’s first major retrospective in 1970 was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Whitney Museum organized the exhibition in New York, presenting a broad survey of O’Keeffe’s career. By then, she was recognized as a major figure in American modernism, with work spanning abstraction, flowers, bones, landscapes, and urban subjects.

The retrospective helped establish the scale and continuity of her achievement for a new generation of viewers. O’Keeffe had first gained national attention decades earlier, but the 1970 exhibition reassessed her work across her long career.

The venue is sometimes confused with the Museum of Modern Art, which also displayed and collected modern art. The Whitney’s focus on American art made it a particularly significant setting for this career survey.