At which university did Georgia O'Keeffe study art before moving to New York?

Georgia O'Keeffe studied art at the University of Virginia before moving to New York.

O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville during the 1910s, where she worked as an art instructor and studied with Alon Bement. Bement taught methods associated with Arthur Wesley Dow, whose ideas about line, color, and composition strongly influenced O'Keeffe’s development.

She later studied with Dow at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York. Dow encouraged students to organize visual elements through design rather than simply copy what they saw. O'Keeffe’s early abstractions grew from this emphasis on formal structure and personal expression.

Her education was not limited to one institution. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied at the Art Students League in New York before the Virginia period. The University of Virginia is the specific institution tied to her teaching and study with Bement, while Columbia was associated with her later work with Dow.