Which 1970 exhibition at the Whitney Museum helped renew interest in Georgia O'Keeffe?

The 1970 Whitney Museum exhibition was titled Georgia O'Keeffe.

The retrospective was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and helped introduce O'Keeffe's work to a new generation. By then, her reputation had endured for decades, but the exhibition renewed critical and public attention at a time when museums and scholars were reassessing American modernism and the role of women artists.

The show was especially significant because O'Keeffe's career had begun in New York's avant-garde circles before becoming strongly associated with New Mexico. A major retrospective could present those phases together: early abstractions, city scenes, flower paintings, desert landscapes, bones, and later works. This broad view made clear that her career was not limited to one subject or style.

The exhibition also preceded a major late-career period of recognition. O'Keeffe received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the Whitney later included her work in larger accounts of American art. Its title is simply Georgia O'Keeffe, not a subtitle describing a particular series or period.