Texas was the state whose university employed Georgia O'Keeffe as a drawing instructor in 1916.
In 1916, O'Keeffe accepted a teaching position at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. The institution is now known as West Texas A&M University.
Her Texas years were important because she continued developing the abstract drawings that attracted Alfred Stieglitz’s attention. The wide landscapes and strong natural forms of the Texas Panhandle also contributed to the visual vocabulary she later brought to New Mexico.
O'Keeffe taught at several institutions during her early career, so the location can be confused with Virginia, where she taught before Texas. She did not begin her permanent New Mexico life until 1949, although Texas was an important earlier chapter.