Georgia O'Keeffe’s first solo museum retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1970 was titled Georgia O'Keeffe.
The exhibition marked a major institutional recognition of an artist whose career had already lasted more than half a century. It brought together works from different periods, including abstractions, flowers, city views, New Mexico subjects, and later paintings. The retrospective helped establish O'Keeffe’s full career as a central part of American modernism.
By 1970, O'Keeffe was widely known, but museum attention had often emphasized selected aspects of her work rather than its complete range. A retrospective provided a chronological and thematic view of her development.
The exhibition title is easy to overlook because it is simply the artist’s name. It should not be confused with later surveys, catalogue titles, or the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which opened in Santa Fe in 1997. The Whitney exhibition took place in New York.