Which institution gave Georgia O'Keeffe the first retrospective devoted to a woman artist in 1946?

The Museum of Modern Art gave Georgia O'Keeffe the first retrospective at the institution devoted to a woman artist in 1946.

The exhibition was organized by Alfred H. Barr Jr., MoMA's founding director and a major historian of modern art. It surveyed O'Keeffe's work and recognized her as a central figure in the development of American modernism.

The retrospective was historically significant because major museums had often given less attention to women artists. O'Keeffe was already famous, but the MoMA exhibition created an institutional milestone that later accounts frequently cite as the museum's first solo retrospective for a woman artist.

This event is distinct from O'Keeffe's 1970 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The two exhibitions are sometimes mixed up because both were major career surveys. The 1946 MoMA show is the one associated with the first woman-artist retrospective distinction.