What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum retrospective venue in the United States?

Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum retrospective in the United States was held at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The retrospective took place in 1943. A museum retrospective surveys an artist's career rather than presenting only a recent group of works, so the event marked an important institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's development from early abstractions to flowers, city scenes, and landscapes.

O'Keeffe had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago as a young artist, making the venue especially significant. Her first major gallery presentation had occurred much earlier, when Alfred Stieglitz exhibited her drawings in New York in 1916. A gallery exhibition and a museum retrospective are different milestones.

The Museum of Modern Art later became strongly associated with O'Keeffe through exhibitions and collection history, but it was not the venue of this first U.S. solo museum retrospective. The Chicago exhibition therefore links her early training with her mature public reputation.