Which New York museum held Georgia O’Keeffe’s major 1970 retrospective?

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

The exhibition surveyed O’Keeffe’s career at a time when her reputation had already been established but was being reassessed by a new generation. A retrospective differs from a normal one-artist exhibition because it presents a broad selection across an artist’s development.

The Whitney’s show helped reinforce O’Keeffe’s place in the history of American modernism. It brought together works associated with her flowers, abstract experiments, New York buildings, bones, and New Mexico landscapes.

The exhibition is sometimes attributed to the Museum of Modern Art because MoMA also played a major role in presenting modern art in New York. However, the 1970 retrospective was organized by the Whitney. O’Keeffe’s connection with New York’s gallery and museum world began decades earlier through Alfred Stieglitz’s exhibitions.