Which university did Georgia O'Keeffe attend from 1912 to 1914 while studying with Alon Bement?

Georgia O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia from 1912 to 1914 while studying with Alon Bement.

O'Keeffe went to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville during summers and worked with Alon Bement, an art educator associated with the ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow emphasized design principles such as line, composition, and the expressive arrangement of shapes rather than simple imitation of nature.

That training helped O'Keeffe move away from the academic realism she had learned earlier. After her time in Virginia, she taught art in Texas and South Carolina and began experimenting with increasingly abstract forms. Her 1915 charcoal drawings, which Stieglitz later exhibited, grew from this shift in artistic thinking.

The University of Virginia was not the only institution in her education. She also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York. The Virginia connection is specifically associated with Bement and Dow's influential teaching methods.