Which artist influenced Georgia O'Keeffe through the teaching of Alon Bement?

Arthur Wesley Dow influenced Georgia O'Keeffe through the teaching of Alon Bement.

O'Keeffe encountered Dow's ideas while studying at the University of Virginia in 1912 with Alon Bement, who had been associated with Dow's teaching. Dow emphasized composition, line, mass, and color rather than requiring art to imitate nature literally. Those principles helped O'Keeffe move toward a more personal and abstract way of working.

The influence was especially important because it encouraged her to treat art as an arrangement of visual elements. O'Keeffe later produced abstract charcoal drawings that reduced forms to expressive lines and shapes, work that Alfred Stieglitz exhibited in New York.

Dow was an American art educator and printmaker, not a European avant-garde painter. O'Keeffe's development therefore came through a combination of American teaching, her own experiments, and later exposure to modern art—not from direct study with Picasso or Matisse.