Which college did Georgia O'Keeffe attend in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1912?

Georgia O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1912.

She went to the university to study with Alon Bement, an influential art educator who taught there during summer sessions. Bement introduced her to ideas associated with Arthur Wesley Dow, whose approach emphasized composition, line, color, and the arrangement of visual elements rather than strict imitation.

O'Keeffe's time at the University of Virginia was part of a larger period of teaching and artistic experimentation. She later used Dow's principles while developing the abstract charcoal drawings that brought her to Alfred Stieglitz's attention.

The university is sometimes omitted from short biographies because O'Keeffe also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. Those were separate stages of her education. The Charlottesville study period was especially significant for the ideas that helped shape her move toward abstraction.