Which art school awarded Georgia O'Keeffe its William Merritt Chase still-life scholarship in 1908?

The Art Students League of New York awarded Georgia O'Keeffe its William Merritt Chase still-life scholarship in 1908.

O'Keeffe studied at the League after attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the New York school, she worked under the influential painter William Merritt Chase, whose teaching emphasized disciplined observation and traditional studio practice.

The scholarship recognized her skill in still-life painting and helped support her continued artistic education. O'Keeffe later found that conventional academic methods no longer matched her ambitions, and financial pressure eventually led her to take teaching positions.

Her breakthrough toward abstraction came several years later. In 1915, she made charcoal drawings that deliberately avoided representational detail. Those works were sent to Alfred Stieglitz, who exhibited them in 1916. Thus, the scholarship belongs to her academic phase, while the charcoal drawings mark her emergence as a modernist.