Which museum held Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum exhibition in 1927?

The Brooklyn Museum held Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo museum exhibition in 1927.

The Brooklyn Museum presented O'Keeffe in a solo exhibition during a period when her career was rapidly expanding beyond Alfred Stieglitz's gallery circle. The museum, founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

O'Keeffe's museum history includes several milestones that are easy to mix up. The Art Institute of Chicago hosted a major retrospective of her work in 1943, while the Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a major retrospective in 1946. Those later exhibitions were not her first solo museum show.

The 1927 Brooklyn Museum exhibition helped confirm her standing in American modern art. By then, her work included abstract compositions as well as paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, and other subjects treated through distinctive close-up forms.