Which city hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's first retrospective at the Whitney Museum?

New York City hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's first Whitney Museum retrospective.

The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the retrospective in 1970. By then, O'Keeffe had already spent decades developing a major body of work that included flowers, abstractions, city scenes, New York architecture, and New Mexico subjects.

A retrospective differs from a standard solo exhibition because it surveys an artist's career across a substantial period. The Whitney presentation therefore marked institutional recognition of O'Keeffe as a major figure in American art, not simply as a painter associated with one recognizable subject.

O'Keeffe's connection with New York was especially important early in her career, but she was not living there permanently by 1970. She had moved to New Mexico in 1949. The Whitney retrospective should also not be confused with later museum exhibitions devoted to individual periods or themes.