What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first major retrospective museum exhibition venue in 1946?

Georgia O'Keeffe's first major retrospective museum exhibition was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of O'Keeffe's work in 1946. It was the first retrospective the museum had devoted to a woman artist, marking an important institutional milestone as well as a major recognition of O'Keeffe's career.

By that time, O'Keeffe had already developed a substantial body of work, including abstractions, enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. The retrospective helped establish her as a central figure in American modernism rather than simply a regional or decorative painter.

This fact is sometimes confused with later exhibitions at the Whitney Museum or the National Gallery of Art. Those institutions also presented important exhibitions, but MoMA's 1946 retrospective has the specific distinction of being her first major museum retrospective.