Which 1946 museum retrospective made Georgia O'Keeffe the first woman artist honored by that institution?

The Museum of Modern Art held the 1946 retrospective that made Georgia O'Keeffe its first woman artist honored with a solo retrospective.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective Exhibition in 1946. The exhibition surveyed her career and confirmed her position as a major figure in American modernism.

The retrospective was organized soon after the death of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and it helped emphasize the breadth of O'Keeffe's achievement beyond her association with his gallery. Her work included abstraction, flowers, bones, New York architecture, and Southwestern landscapes.

This milestone is sometimes confused with later retrospectives at other museums. The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a major O'Keeffe retrospective in 1970, while the Art Institute of Chicago later became associated with her monumental cloud painting. The 1946 first belongs specifically to MoMA.