Which Texas landscape did Georgia O'Keeffe paint repeatedly during her years teaching there?

Georgia O’Keeffe repeatedly painted Palo Duro Canyon during her years in Texas.

O’Keeffe taught art at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas, from 1916 to 1918. Palo Duro Canyon lies near Canyon and became a major source of visual material for her early paintings. She explored its layered walls, dramatic colors, and changing light.

Her Texas works include simplified landscapes and images that move toward abstraction. The canyon’s forms helped her reduce natural scenery to broad shapes and intense color relationships, a process that later became central to her work in New Mexico.

Palo Duro Canyon is sometimes called the “Grand Canyon of Texas,” but it is not the same place as Arizona’s Grand Canyon. Its location near Canyon, in the Texas Panhandle, made it accessible during O’Keeffe’s teaching period and distinguishes it from the New Mexico landscapes associated with her later career.