Georgia O'Keeffe was the title of her first major solo museum retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943.
The exhibition, held at the Art Institute of Chicago, was an important institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's career. By that time she was already known for enlarged flowers, abstract compositions, New York skyscrapers, and paintings inspired by New Mexico.
A retrospective differs from a first solo exhibition: it surveys an artist's work across several periods rather than presenting only a new group of pictures. The 1943 show therefore demonstrated the breadth of O'Keeffe's development.
The exhibition also took place in Chicago, where O'Keeffe had studied at the School of the Art Institute decades earlier. Her career had by then moved far beyond academic training, but the city remained connected to a significant early chapter in her artistic education.