What was the title of Georgia O’Keeffe’s first one-woman museum exhibition, held in 1946?

Georgia O’Keeffe was the title of her first one-woman museum exhibition, held in 1946 at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition marked an important institutional recognition of her work.

By 1946, O’Keeffe was already an established modernist with a substantial body of flower paintings, city views, abstractions, and New Mexico images. Her museum exhibition followed decades of gallery support from Alfred Stieglitz and helped position her work within the broader history of American art.

The Art Institute of Chicago was especially significant because O’Keeffe had studied there earlier, in 1905 and 1906. The 1946 exhibition was not her first public showing; her work had appeared in galleries and group exhibitions much earlier. Its importance was that it was her first major one-woman museum presentation.