What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first major retrospective venue in 1943?

Georgia O'Keeffe's first major retrospective venue in 1943 was the Art Institute of Chicago.

The retrospective surveyed her career at a time when she was already one of the best-known American modernist painters. It helped establish the importance of her flowers, cityscapes, abstractions, and New Mexico subjects as parts of a sustained artistic achievement rather than isolated experiments.

O'Keeffe had previously exhibited widely, including through Alfred Stieglitz's galleries in New York. A retrospective, however, presents a broad selection across an artist's career and carries a different institutional significance from a gallery exhibition.

The Art Institute of Chicago should not be confused with the Museum of Modern Art, which also organized important exhibitions of modern American art. Chicago's 1943 presentation is generally identified as O'Keeffe's first major retrospective.