Which New York institution hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's 1946 retrospective?

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The Museum of Modern Art hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's 1946 retrospective.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented Georgia O'Keeffe, 1915–1946 in 1946. The exhibition was the first solo museum exhibition devoted to her work and surveyed paintings and drawings from the beginning of her mature career through the mid-1940s.

MoMA's support placed O'Keeffe within an institutional account of modern art rather than limiting her reputation to commercial gallery exhibitions. The show included multiple phases of her practice, including abstraction, enlarged flowers, urban imagery, and New Mexico subjects. It is distinct from later O'Keeffe retrospectives at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Art.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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