Which university did Georgia O'Keeffe attend in Charlottesville as an art student?

Georgia O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia as an art student.

O'Keeffe studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville during the 1910s and later returned there as a summer instructor. Her time at the university was connected with the teaching of art rather than a conventional four-year degree program.

At Virginia, she encountered the ideas of art educator Arthur Wesley Dow, whose approach emphasized composition, line, color, and personal expression rather than simply copying visible reality. Dow's influence became important in O'Keeffe's move toward abstraction and modernist design.

The university is one part of a varied educational history that also includes the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, and Columbia University's Teachers College. Because she studied and taught at several institutions, biographies sometimes compress these stages into a single period.