Which university did Georgia O’Keeffe attend in New York for teacher training?

Georgia O’Keeffe attended Columbia University for teacher training. She studied at Columbia’s Teachers College, where Arthur Wesley Dow taught ideas about composition that strongly influenced her artistic development.

Dow emphasized design, balance, and the expressive use of line and color rather than strict imitation of nature. O’Keeffe had already studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, but Dow’s approach helped her reconsider the possibilities of simplified form.

She did not complete a conventional university degree there, and her artistic education also developed through teaching positions and independent work. Columbia University is the correct institutional answer; Teachers College was the specific school within the university associated with her training. Her later abstract drawings show the impact of Dow’s design-centered teaching.