Which museum organized Georgia O'Keeffe's major 1970 retrospective?

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The Whitney Museum of American Art organized Georgia O'Keeffe’s major 1970 retrospective.

The exhibition in New York surveyed O'Keeffe’s career and confirmed her position as a leading American modernist. A retrospective differs from a single-theme display because it presents work across a substantial span of an artist’s development.

The Whitney’s exhibition was important not only for its scale but also for its timing. O'Keeffe had already been working for more than half a century, and the retrospective helped bring renewed attention to her achievement during a period when museums and critics were reassessing women artists.

The event is sometimes attributed to the Museum of Modern Art because that institution also mounted major modern-art exhibitions. However, the 1970 O'Keeffe retrospective was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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