The 1970 Whitney Museum exhibition was titled Georgia O'Keeffe.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York organized the exhibition as a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's work. It examined a career that stretched from early abstraction through flower paintings, city views, and the desert imagery associated with New Mexico.
The show was significant because O'Keeffe had long been discussed as a central figure in American modernism, yet her work was also frequently reduced to interpretations of flowers or biography. A broad retrospective allowed viewers to see the variety and continuity across her subjects.
This exhibition should not be confused with later surveys titled Georgia O'Keeffe: A Retrospective or with the Museum of Modern Art's 1946 retrospective. The Whitney's 1970 exhibition was simply titled Georgia O'Keeffe.