What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art?

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Georgia O'Keeffe was the title of her first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946.

The exhibition was significant because it made O'Keeffe the first woman to receive a solo retrospective at MoMA. The museum opened in New York in 1929 and quickly became one of the most influential institutions for modern art.

O'Keeffe's retrospective surveyed work from different periods, including abstract paintings, flowers, landscapes, and other subjects. By then, she had established a major reputation, although critics and viewers often tried to interpret her flower paintings narrowly through gendered symbolism.

The exhibition title is simply Georgia O'Keeffe, not a descriptive phrase such as Flowers and Bones. Its date is also important: the show opened in 1946, shortly after the death of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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