What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first formal art school, attended in Chicago in 1905?

Georgia O'Keeffe attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905.

She enrolled there after completing early schooling and studying art in Virginia. The Chicago school provided academic training in drawing and painting, including instruction based on observation and established artistic methods. O'Keeffe later attended the Art Students League in New York, but Chicago came first in her formal art education.

At the Art Students League, she studied under William Merritt Chase and won a scholarship to the League's summer school at Lake George. Her training was initially rooted in conventional academic practice, even though she eventually became famous for highly personal abstraction and simplified forms.

O'Keeffe's educational path is sometimes compressed into a single New York chapter. In fact, her time in Chicago preceded both the New York League and her later studies at the University of Virginia. These experiences supplied technical foundations that she would eventually challenge while developing an individual modernist language.