Which museum mounted Georgia O'Keeffe's first retrospective in 1946?

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The Museum of Modern Art mounted Georgia O'Keeffe's first retrospective in 1946.

The exhibition in New York surveyed her career at a crucial moment. O'Keeffe had already become known for enlarged flowers, New York architectural subjects, bones, and landscapes, but a retrospective gave viewers a sustained view of her development rather than a single period or motif. The show opened shortly after Alfred Stieglitz's death.

O'Keeffe was the first woman artist to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. That fact is distinct from later museum exhibitions and from the institution's founding in 1929. The retrospective helped establish her as a major figure in American modernism and preserved the range of her work beyond the flower paintings for which she is most often recognized.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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