What was the name of Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum exhibition, held in 1946?

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Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum exhibition was titled Georgia O'Keeffe.

The exhibition was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1946. It was a major institutional recognition of an artist who had already built a substantial reputation through gallery exhibitions, especially those organized by Alfred Stieglitz. The retrospective presented the breadth of her career rather than treating her only as a painter of flowers.

O'Keeffe's work in the exhibition included abstractions, flower paintings, city views, landscapes, and other subjects developed over several decades. The museum's decision to devote a solo exhibition to her was significant in an art world where women artists often received less institutional attention.

The exhibition took place shortly after Stieglitz's death, and O'Keeffe subsequently spent increasing amounts of time in New Mexico. The title is easy to confuse with later catalogs or museum retrospectives because it uses the artist's name alone, but the 1946 Museum of Modern Art exhibition is identified in biographies as her first solo museum show.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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