Which university did Georgia O'Keeffe attend in Charlottesville during the 1910s?

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Georgia O'Keeffe attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

O'Keeffe studied and taught at the University of Virginia during the 1910s. She first went there in 1912 to take a summer course in art education, then returned as a summer instructor in 1913 and 1914. The university’s setting became an important part of her development as an art teacher.

Her time in Charlottesville followed formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1915, she began making radically simplified charcoal abstractions, a breakthrough that moved her away from academic realism and toward personal modernist expression.

The University of Virginia is in Charlottesville, not Georgia or Texas. O'Keeffe did not attend the University of Georgia; that tempting answer relies only on the shared state name in her surname. Her education and teaching posts took place at several institutions, but Charlottesville is specifically connected to the University of Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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