Which presidential honor did Georgia O'Keeffe receive from Gerald Ford in 1977?

Georgia O'Keeffe received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford in 1977.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States. President John F. Kennedy established the modern version of the award in 1963, although an earlier medal with the same name had existed under President Harry Truman.

O'Keeffe was honored for her major contribution to American art. By 1977, she had become one of the country’s most recognized modernist painters, known for enlarged flowers, New York subjects, and New Mexico landscapes and bones.

The award is sometimes confused with the National Medal of Arts, which O'Keeffe also received later, in 1985. The 1977 honor presented by President Ford was specifically the Presidential Medal of Freedom.