Which museum hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's first major retrospective in 1970?

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

The exhibition was a significant recognition of O'Keeffe's long career. By then, she had worked across several major subjects, including enlarged flowers, New York architecture, New Mexico landscapes, desert bones, and abstract forms.

A retrospective differs from a single-theme exhibition because it surveys an artist's career across many periods and bodies of work. The Whitney presentation helped place O'Keeffe's achievements within the broader history of American modernism and introduced her work to a new generation of viewers.

The museum is sometimes confused with the Museum of Modern Art, which also played an important role in presenting modern art in New York. However, the 1970 major retrospective specifically associated with O'Keeffe was held by the Whitney Museum of American Art.