Which university employed Georgia O'Keeffe as an art teacher in 1916?

The University of Virginia employed Georgia O'Keeffe as an art teacher in 1916. She taught in Charlottesville after developing a new approach to art that emphasized simplified forms and abstraction rather than copying academic models.

O'Keeffe had previously taught art in Texas and South Carolina. Her Virginia appointment came shortly before Alfred Stieglitz exhibited her abstract charcoal drawings at his New York gallery in 1916. Those exhibitions brought her work to the attention of the American art world.

The University of Virginia period is an important bridge between O'Keeffe's teaching career and her emergence as a full-time artist. She left teaching in 1918 and moved to New York, where Stieglitz represented her. Later accounts sometimes jump directly from her student years to fame, overlooking this substantial period as an educator.