What was the name of Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-person museum retrospective venue?

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Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-person museum retrospective was held at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Art Institute of Chicago presented the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe in 1943. It was her first one-person museum retrospective, a major step beyond the gallery exhibitions that had introduced her work earlier in her career.

The exhibition reflected the broad range of her practice, including abstractions, flowers, architectural subjects, and landscapes. O'Keeffe had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago as a young artist, so the venue also had a direct connection to her education.

This distinction is often blurred with her 1946 retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The Chicago exhibition came first as a museum retrospective, while the MoMA show is notable for making her the first woman artist to receive a retrospective there.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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