Which New York museum opened the first museum exhibition devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe in 1946?

The Museum of Modern Art in New York opened the first museum exhibition devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe in 1946.

The Museum of Modern Art, commonly called MoMA, presented the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe in 1946. It was an important institutional recognition of an artist whose work had previously been promoted mainly through galleries, especially Alfred Stieglitz's 291 and later venues.

The exhibition helped establish O'Keeffe within the history of American modernism. Her work crossed several recognizable groups: abstract charcoal drawings, skyscraper paintings, enlarged flowers, and images of New Mexico. MoMA's attention reflected the range of her career rather than a single signature subject.

This exhibition is separate from O'Keeffe's first retrospective, held at the Art Institute of Chicago in the same year. The two events are easy to conflate: one was her first museum exhibition devoted to her, while the other was the first retrospective of her career.