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

The Museum of Modern Art hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's first major retrospective museum exhibition in 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's work in 1946. The exhibition recognized the importance of her career across abstraction, enlarged flowers, New York architecture, and New Mexico imagery. It was a significant institutional milestone for an American woman artist working in modernism.

The retrospective occurred during a period of major personal change. Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946, and O'Keeffe later moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949. Her work continued to develop after the exhibition rather than ending with it.

This show should not be confused with later retrospectives at the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery of Art, or other institutions. The Museum of Modern Art is the specific host of the first major museum retrospective.