At which art school in Chicago did Georgia O'Keeffe study under John Vanderpoel?

Georgia O'Keeffe studied under John Vanderpoel at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

O'Keeffe attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. There she studied traditional academic art under John Vanderpoel, a respected instructor whose teaching emphasized drawing, anatomy, and observation. This training gave her a strong foundation in representational technique.

She later studied at the Art Students League in New York, where William Merritt Chase taught her. Those two schools are often confused because both were important parts of her early education, but the Chicago school is the institution connected with Vanderpoel.

O'Keeffe eventually rejected the idea that art had to reproduce visible reality. Her later abstractions developed through teaching, experimentation, and engagement with modernist ideas. Even so, her early academic training remained part of her technical background and helps explain the confidence of her later simplified forms.