Georgia O'Keeffe's first major Whitney Museum retrospective was titled Georgia O'Keeffe.
The Whitney Museum of American Art presented a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's work in 1970. Its title was simply Georgia O'Keeffe, a direct identification of the artist rather than a thematic phrase. The exhibition helped assess the breadth of a career that had already lasted more than five decades.
O'Keeffe's work had been shown widely before this retrospective, including at museums and galleries in New York. A retrospective differs from a single-gallery debut because it surveys an artist's career across multiple periods, subjects, and techniques.
This fact is distinct from the separate question of her first major one-person museum exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. The institutions and dates should not be combined: the Whitney retrospective was a later career survey, while the Museum of Modern Art exhibition belonged to an earlier phase of her public recognition.