At which university did Georgia O'Keeffe teach art in the 1910s?

Georgia O'Keeffe taught art at the University of Virginia in the 1910s. She worked there as an instructor during the summers of 1912 and 1913 and returned for additional teaching in 1914.

Her teaching followed a period of professional uncertainty. After studying at the University of Virginia in a summer program, she encountered Arthur Wesley Dow’s ideas about composition and began developing a more individual approach to art. She later taught in Texas before moving more fully into her New York-centered career.

The University of Virginia period is significant because it belongs to O'Keeffe’s transition away from copying established artistic formulas. Her experiments with charcoal abstraction during this broader period eventually reached Alfred Stieglitz and led to her first New York exhibitions.

The university is sometimes confused with the University of New Mexico, which became closely associated with O'Keeffe’s later New Mexico life and legacy. She taught at the University of Virginia early in her career, not at the University of New Mexico.