Which college employed Georgia O'Keeffe as an art teacher in Texas from 1916 to 1918?

West Texas State Normal College employed Georgia O'Keeffe as an art teacher from 1916 to 1918.

O'Keeffe joined the faculty of West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas, in 1916. She taught art there until 1918, when illness and the influenza pandemic contributed to her departure. The institution later became West Texas State University and is now West Texas A&M University.

Her Texas teaching period was important because she was developing the bold, simplified drawings that Alfred Stieglitz exhibited in New York. She also formed a lasting connection with the wide landscapes of the Texas Panhandle, which influenced her later work.

The historical name matters: the college was not yet called West Texas State University during O'Keeffe's tenure. Using the later name can obscure the institution's exact identity in accounts of her career.