Which institution gave Georgia O'Keeffe its first major solo museum exhibition in 1946?

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The Museum of Modern Art gave Georgia O'Keeffe her first major solo museum exhibition in 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented Georgia O'Keeffe, a retrospective exhibition that opened in May 1946. The show recognized the breadth of her career, from early abstractions and New York cityscapes to flowers, bones, and landscapes.

The exhibition was organized by the museum's director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and helped establish O'Keeffe as a major figure in American modernism. It took place shortly before Alfred Stieglitz's death and during a period when O'Keeffe was increasingly turning her attention toward New Mexico.

This fact is sometimes confused with the first museum retrospective dedicated to O'Keeffe, which was held earlier at the Brooklyn Museum in 1927. The 1946 MoMA exhibition was her first major solo museum exhibition, not the first retrospective of any kind.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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