Georgia O'Keeffe moved from Texas to New York in 1918.
In 1918, O'Keeffe accepted Alfred Stieglitz's invitation to move to New York and devote herself to painting. She had been teaching art in Texas and had already developed a personal approach to abstraction through charcoal drawings and watercolors.
The move brought her into the center of the American modern-art scene. She lived and worked in New York while Stieglitz exhibited her paintings and photographed her extensively. Their professional partnership later became a personal relationship, and they married in 1924.
This move is distinct from O'Keeffe's later trips to New Mexico, which began in 1929. New York was her principal professional base during the period when she became nationally recognized, while New Mexico supplied many of the landscapes and objects that shaped her later imagery.