At which university did Georgia O'Keeffe study under Alon Bement?

Georgia O'Keeffe studied under Alon Bement at the University of Virginia.

O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville during the summer of 1912 and returned for additional study. Alon Bement, a professor and influential art educator there, introduced her to ideas associated with Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow emphasized composition, line, color, and personal expression rather than strict imitation of nature.

Those ideas became a turning point for O'Keeffe. She later applied them in experimental drawings and abstractions, moving away from the academic copying methods she had learned earlier. Her work began to treat visual elements as independent forces instead of merely as parts of recognizable objects.

The university is sometimes confused with the schools where O'Keeffe earned formal degrees. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, but the University of Virginia was where Bement's teaching helped redirect her artistic thinking.