Which museum holds Georgia O'Keeffe's largest public collection in the United States?

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The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum holds the largest public collection of her work in the United States.

The museum opened in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1997, more than a decade after O'Keeffe's death. Its collection includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and personal materials connected with her life and career.

The museum's holdings cover the full span of O'Keeffe's work, from early abstractions to later paintings of flowers, bones, New York buildings, and New Mexico landscapes. It also supports research through the Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center.

The museum should not be confused with institutions that staged important earlier exhibitions. The Museum of Modern Art organized O'Keeffe's first retrospective in 1946, and the Whitney Museum presented a major retrospective in 1970. The dedicated museum in Santa Fe is the institution most specifically associated with preserving and interpreting her legacy.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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