Which New York museum held Georgia O'Keeffe’s first retrospective in 1946?

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

The Museum of Modern Art, commonly called MoMA, presented Georgia O'Keeffe: A Retrospective in 1946. The exhibition was organized by the museum’s director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and gave a broad account of her career up to that point.

The retrospective was significant because O'Keeffe was already a major American modernist, yet museum recognition for women artists remained limited. The exhibition helped establish her work within the history of American modern art rather than treating her only as a regional or botanical painter.

MoMA had opened in New York in 1929 and quickly became an important institution for modern art. O'Keeffe’s retrospective included work from different periods and subjects, including abstractions, flowers, city scenes, and New Mexico imagery. The museum later acquired important works by her, including paintings that remain part of its collection.