Which college did Georgia O'Keeffe attend in Charlottesville, Virginia, before becoming an artist?

Georgia O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, before becoming a professional artist.

She studied at the university during the summers of 1912 and 1914, taking classes connected with art education. Her experiences there were part of a period in which she worked as an art teacher and explored new approaches to drawing and painting.

O'Keeffe's artistic direction changed sharply in the middle of the 1910s. In 1915, she produced a series of abstract charcoal drawings that reduced natural forms to expressive lines and shapes. She sent some of these works to Anita Pollitzer, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz in New York.

The university was therefore one stage in a broader transition rather than the place where O'Keeffe completed a conventional art degree. Her earlier formal education also included the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York.