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

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

The retrospective in New York surveyed O'Keeffe's career and confirmed her importance in American modernism. It was also a landmark institutional recognition for a woman artist, since major museum retrospectives were less commonly granted to women at that time.

O'Keeffe's work in the exhibition included paintings from several phases of her career, rather than only one subject. Her flowers, New York scenes, and Southwestern imagery all formed part of the broader artistic record that museums increasingly studied.

The Museum of Modern Art is commonly abbreviated MoMA. It should not be confused with the Whitney or Guggenheim, which also later exhibited important American modern art.