Which 1970 museum exhibition helped renew attention to Georgia O'Keeffe's work?

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

Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the retrospective brought renewed critical and public attention to O'Keeffe's achievement. It appeared during a period when feminist art historians were reassessing women artists who had been marginalized by standard modern-art narratives.

The show surveyed her abstractions, flowers, city views, and New Mexico subjects rather than reducing her to a single style. Its timing helped introduce O'Keeffe to a younger generation and contributed to her status as an iconic American artist.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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