What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first major solo museum exhibition in 1943 held at?

Georgia O'Keeffe's first major solo museum exhibition in 1943 was held at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The exhibition gave a major American museum audience an extended view of O'Keeffe's work. It followed years of gallery exhibitions organized through Alfred Stieglitz and helped confirm that her art merited institutional recognition.

O'Keeffe had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago early in her career, so the 1943 exhibition marked a return to an institution connected with her training. By that time, her work included abstract paintings, flowers, urban scenes, and subjects drawn from the New Mexico landscape.

The show should be distinguished from her 1946 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Chicago exhibition came first as a major solo museum presentation; the MoMA exhibition later became notable as the first retrospective there devoted to a woman artist.