Which 1970 museum retrospective helped renew international attention to Georgia O'Keeffe?

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

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York organized Georgia O'Keeffe in 1970. The retrospective presented a broad view of her career and helped introduce her work to a new generation during a period of renewed interest in women artists.

O'Keeffe was already a major artist, but the exhibition expanded critical and public discussion of the range of her work. It included paintings connected with flowers, city architecture, bones, and Southwestern landscapes rather than reducing her to a single motif.

The exhibition's title is easy to confuse with MoMA's 1946 solo museum exhibition, which also used O'Keeffe's name. The institutions and years distinguish the two milestones: MoMA in 1946 and the Whitney in 1970.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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