Which New York museum made Georgia O'Keeffe the subject of its first retrospective by a woman artist in 1946?

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The Museum of Modern Art made Georgia O'Keeffe the subject of its first retrospective devoted to a woman artist in 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe in 1946. It was the museum's first retrospective for a woman artist, marking an important institutional recognition of O'Keeffe's position in American modernism.

The exhibition took place after O'Keeffe had already developed a major reputation through paintings of flowers, landscapes, bones, and architectural forms. It also followed a period in which her work had been closely associated with Stieglitz's advocacy.

This fact is distinct from the venue of O'Keeffe's first solo museum retrospective: that earlier question concerns the institution that hosted the retrospective, while this question identifies the museum that organized the landmark 1946 exhibition.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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