Which university in Charlottesville employed Georgia O’Keeffe as an art instructor in the 1910s?

The University of Virginia employed Georgia O’Keeffe as an art instructor in the 1910s. She taught summer courses there in 1912 and again in 1914, 1915, and 1916, while developing the ideas that led to her mature abstract work.

Her Virginia teaching followed earlier work as an art educator in Texas. At the University of Virginia, she encountered the landscape around Charlottesville and continued experimenting with simplified forms and expressive line. Her teaching career was not separate from her artistic development: it gave her income and time while she tested new approaches outside conventional academic realism.

O’Keeffe is more commonly associated with New Mexico, where she later found subjects that became central to her public image. The University of Virginia connection belongs to an earlier phase, before her move to New York in 1918 and before her permanent Southwestern associations. It should also not be confused with her later teaching at Columbia University.