Which museum hosted the first retrospective devoted to a woman artist when it honored Georgia O'Keeffe in 1946?

The Museum of Modern Art hosted Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1946 retrospective, its first retrospective devoted to a woman artist.

The exhibition was organized by curator Dorothy C. Miller and surveyed O'Keeffe’s career up to that point. It included works associated with her major subjects: abstract forms, flowers, New York architecture, and New Mexico landscapes. The retrospective helped confirm her importance within American modernism at a time when major museums often gave less attention to women artists.

This 1946 exhibition is distinct from O'Keeffe’s first solo museum show, which took place at the Brooklyn Museum in 1927. It is also not the same as later retrospective exhibitions organized after her death. The MoMA event remains a notable institutional milestone because it recognized both the breadth of her work and her status as a leading American artist.