Which art museum became the first in the United States to devote a retrospective to Georgia O'Keeffe?

The Museum of Modern Art became the first museum in the United States to devote a retrospective to Georgia O'Keeffe in 1946.

The exhibition was an important institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's achievement and presented her work across several phases. It also established a major milestone in the history of women in American art: O'Keeffe was the first woman artist to receive a retrospective at MoMA.

The fact is sometimes shortened to say that MoMA gave her first major exhibition, but she had already shown her work in galleries, including exhibitions organized by Alfred Stieglitz. The distinction matters because a retrospective is a comprehensive review of an artist's career, not simply a first public display. MoMA's 1946 exhibition helped frame O'Keeffe as a central American modernist.