Which art museum hosted Georgia O'Keeffe’s first retrospective in 1943?

The Art Institute of Chicago hosted Georgia O'Keeffe’s first retrospective in 1943.

The Art Institute of Chicago organized O'Keeffe’s first museum retrospective in 1943. A retrospective surveys an artist’s work across a substantial part of a career, rather than presenting only a new group of paintings. The exhibition helped establish O'Keeffe as a major American artist.

This event predates the widely remembered 1946 Museum of Modern Art retrospective in New York. MoMA’s exhibition was important for its institutional history, but it was not O'Keeffe’s first retrospective. Keeping those two milestones separate avoids a common chronology error.

By 1943, O'Keeffe had created abstract works, close-up flower paintings, New York skyscraper images, and landscapes and objects from New Mexico. The Chicago retrospective therefore presented a broad view of an already varied career.