Which museum gave Georgia O'Keeffe the first solo exhibition by a woman artist in 1946?

The Museum of Modern Art gave Georgia O'Keeffe the first solo exhibition by a woman artist in its history in 1946.

The exhibition was organized by the museum’s director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and presented a major survey of O'Keeffe’s work. It was an important institutional acknowledgment of an artist who had already gained substantial attention through galleries, critics, and collectors.

MoMA opened in New York in 1929 and became one of the leading institutions for modern art. O'Keeffe’s 1946 exhibition therefore placed her work within a major international modern-art setting, rather than treating her only as a regional or purely American figure.

The exhibition occurred shortly after the death of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Although Stieglitz had played a major role in promoting her early career, O'Keeffe’s MoMA presentation emphasized the breadth of her own artistic achievement, including abstractions, flowers, city views, and New Mexico subjects.