What was Georgia O'Keeffe's major 1946 exhibition distinction at the Museum of Modern Art?

Georgia O'Keeffe was the first woman to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's work in 1946. A retrospective surveys an artist's career rather than focusing only on new pieces, making the distinction significant for both her reputation and the museum's exhibition history.

The exhibition opened shortly after Alfred Stieglitz's death and helped establish O'Keeffe as a major American modernist in her own right. She had already gained attention for abstract drawings, flower paintings, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico subjects. The claim concerns the first woman artist given a MoMA retrospective, not the first woman whose work appeared at the museum or the first woman represented in a group exhibition.