Which 1970 museum retrospective helped establish Georgia O'Keeffe as a major modern American artist?

The Whitney Museum presented a major Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective in 1970.

The exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York was an important late-career recognition. By that time, O'Keeffe had been painting for decades, but the retrospective helped a new generation of critics and artists reassess her place in American modernism. It also challenged the tendency to discuss her mainly through her marriage to Alfred Stieglitz.

The Whitney retrospective is sometimes confused with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art or the Guggenheim. Those institutions also showed modern art, but the widely cited 1970 retrospective was organized by the Whitney. O'Keeffe continued working for many years after the exhibition and remained influential in American art history.