Which 1970 museum exhibition helped establish Georgia O'Keeffe's late-career critical revival?

The Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective at the Whitney Museum helped establish her late-career critical revival in 1970.

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presented a major O'Keeffe retrospective in 1970. The exhibition reassessed her career and introduced her work to a younger generation during a period when feminist art history was bringing greater attention to overlooked women artists.

O'Keeffe was already famous, but her reputation had sometimes been narrowed by interpretations of her flower paintings and by her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz. The retrospective helped emphasize the breadth of her work, including abstraction, landscapes, bones, architecture, and New Mexico subjects.

The exhibition is not the same as the later Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which opened in Santa Fe in 1997. One was a temporary museum retrospective; the other became a permanent institution devoted to her legacy.