Which artist taught Georgia O'Keeffe at the Art Students League?

William Merritt Chase taught Georgia O'Keeffe at the Art Students League.

O'Keeffe attended the Art Students League in New York beginning in 1907. William Merritt Chase, a prominent American painter and teacher, was one of her instructors. Under his guidance, she studied traditional methods of painting and earned a scholarship for a still-life painting.

The Art Students League was an important independent art school known for flexible enrollment and influential teachers. O'Keeffe's time there gave her further academic training after her studies in Chicago. She later moved away from the realism and academic conventions associated with her early education.

O'Keeffe's later artistic direction was influenced particularly by Arthur Wesley Dow, whose ideas about design and composition helped her move toward abstraction. That later influence is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Chase. Chase was her teacher at the League, while Dow's teaching became important during a subsequent stage of her development.