Which museum gave Georgia O'Keeffe her first major retrospective in 1970?

The Whitney Museum of American Art gave Georgia O'Keeffe her first major retrospective in 1970.

The exhibition presented a broad survey of her career at a major New York institution. By that point, O'Keeffe had worked for more than five decades and had developed a body of paintings centered on flowers, buildings, bones, landscapes, and abstract forms.

The retrospective helped reinforce her status as a central figure in American modernism. It also brought renewed public attention to an artist whose reputation had sometimes been framed too narrowly through her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz or through interpretations of her flower paintings.

The Whitney Museum is distinct from the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, both of which also played important roles in exhibiting modern art. O'Keeffe’s 1970 retrospective at the Whitney was a career-survey milestone, not her first exhibition anywhere.