Which 1970 museum exhibition helped reestablish Georgia O'Keeffe’s reputation?

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The 1970 Whitney Museum exhibition titled Georgia O'Keeffe helped reestablish her reputation.

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presented a major Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective in 1970. The exhibition brought renewed attention to an artist whose importance had sometimes been overshadowed by changing art-world fashions and by simplified readings of her flower paintings.

The retrospective also helped introduce O'Keeffe to a younger generation of artists and critics. Feminist art historians and curators later played a major role in reassessing her work, especially her independence from standard movements and her control over her public image. The exhibition title is simply Georgia O'Keeffe, rather than a longer subtitle. It should not be confused with the 1946 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, which was the first retrospective of a woman artist held there.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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