Which New York museum held Georgia O'Keeffe's first retrospective exhibition in 1927?

The Brooklyn Museum held Georgia O'Keeffe's first retrospective exhibition in 1927. A retrospective gathers works from across an artist's career, and this exhibition confirmed that O'Keeffe had become an important figure in American modern art.

The Brooklyn Museum exhibition came during a period when O'Keeffe was receiving increasing attention in New York. Her large-scale flower paintings, abstract works, and architectural subjects challenged conventional expectations about what American art could look like.

The exhibition is sometimes confused with later institutional milestones. The Museum of Modern Art organized a major O'Keeffe retrospective in 1946, and that show was the museum's first retrospective devoted to a woman artist. Those are separate facts: the Brooklyn Museum hosted her first retrospective in 1927, while MoMA's 1946 exhibition carried its own institutional distinction.