Georgia O’Keeffe’s first major museum retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art was titled Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized the exhibition in 1946, giving O’Keeffe a major institutional survey of her work. It was the first retrospective MoMA devoted to a woman artist, an important milestone in the museum’s history and in the public recognition of American women in modern art.
The exhibition followed decades of work in abstraction, urban imagery, flowers, bones, and New Mexico landscapes. O’Keeffe’s reputation had already been shaped by Stieglitz’s exhibitions and writings, but a museum retrospective placed her career within a broader art-historical framework.
The title is easy to confuse with later catalogues or exhibitions about American modernism. The 1946 MoMA retrospective used the artist’s name as its title and surveyed her work rather than focusing on one subject.