Georgia O'Keeffe taught art in Amarillo, Texas, from 1912 to 1914.
She worked at Amarillo High School after completing additional study and teaching work in Virginia. The Texas Panhandle gave her a different environment from the East Coast and Midwest settings of her education. During this period, she continued developing her artistic practice while earning a living as a teacher.
O'Keeffe's teaching career included positions in South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. These jobs were important before her art began receiving sustained attention in New York. In 1915, while teaching at Columbia College in South Carolina, she made a series of abstract charcoal drawings that she sent to photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz.
Amarillo is distinct from the New Mexico places later central to O'Keeffe's life. She did not settle permanently in the Texas city, although the region contributed to the geographic range of her early adult career.