What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman museum exhibition, held in 1943?

The Art Institute of Chicago held Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman museum exhibition in 1943.

The exhibition marked a major institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's career. By that point, she had been exhibiting for decades, but her work had often entered public view through galleries, group shows, and the advocacy of Alfred Stieglitz. A museum survey gave audiences a sustained view of her development.

O'Keeffe had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago earlier in her life, attending from 1905 to 1906. The 1943 exhibition therefore brought her career back to an institution connected with her artistic education.

This event is distinct from her famous 1946 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. MoMA's exhibition was the first retrospective of a woman artist held there, but it was not O'Keeffe's first one-woman museum exhibition overall.