Which museum hosted the 1970 retrospective that renewed interest in Georgia O'Keeffe's work?

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The Whitney Museum of American Art hosted the 1970 retrospective that renewed interest in Georgia O'Keeffe’s work.

The Whitney presented a major O'Keeffe retrospective in 1970. The exhibition helped bring renewed attention to her long career at a time when younger artists, including many associated with feminism and the women’s art movement, were reassessing the place of women in American art history.

O'Keeffe had already achieved major recognition in earlier decades, but the retrospective showed the breadth of her work across abstraction, flowers, buildings, landscapes, and bones. It helped establish her continuing relevance rather than presenting her only as a historical figure.

The exhibition was at the Whitney Museum of American Art, not the Museum of Modern Art or the Guggenheim. Those New York museums also exhibited modern art, which can make the venues easy to mix up.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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