Which university did Georgia O'Keeffe teach at from 1912 to 1914?

Georgia O'Keeffe taught at the University of Virginia from 1912 to 1914. She worked there as an art instructor after completing additional training and gaining experience teaching in Texas.

Her time at the university came before the abstract charcoal drawings that changed her career in 1915. Teaching provided practical employment, but it also gave her space to reconsider the conventional academic methods she had learned at art school.

O'Keeffe later taught at Columbia College in South Carolina and at West Texas State Normal College. These teaching positions are sometimes mixed together because they all belong to the period before she became widely known through Stieglitz's exhibitions.

The University of Virginia period is significant in a broader account of her development. She was not yet the famous New Mexico painter of later decades. Instead, she was an art educator experimenting with personal forms of expression that would lead to her mature modernist work. Her career therefore moved through teaching, experimentation, gallery exhibitions, and eventually full-time professional art.