Georgia O'Keeffe studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan.
She attended the Art Students League of New York in 1907, studying under the painter William Merritt Chase. The school was located in Manhattan and provided an important setting for artists seeking training outside a traditional academy structure.
O'Keeffe won the League’s William Merritt Chase still-life prize in 1908. Her early education also included the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later classes at the University of Virginia, where she worked as an art instructor and experimented with abstraction.
The borough can be confused with Brooklyn because New York City has several major art institutions spread across different boroughs. The Art Students League, however, has long been based in Manhattan. O'Keeffe’s later artistic breakthrough came after she moved away from conventional academic painting toward simplified, abstract forms.