The title of Georgia O'Keeffe's major 1970 Whitney Museum retrospective was Georgia O'Keeffe. The exhibition marked an important late-career recognition for an artist whose reputation had developed over more than five decades.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York organized the retrospective while O'Keeffe was already an established figure in American modernism. Her work was presented across subjects including flowers, skyscrapers, landscapes, bones, and abstract forms.
The exhibition is often discussed in connection with the growing reassessment of women artists in American art history. O'Keeffe had long been famous, but the 1970s brought renewed scholarly and public attention to artists whose achievements had sometimes been interpreted through the careers of male colleagues.
The retrospective should not be confused with later museum exhibitions devoted specifically to O'Keeffe's abstractions or New Mexico paintings. Its straightforward title reflected the breadth of the artist's career rather than a single motif.