Who taught Georgia O'Keeffe at Columbia University Teachers College?

Arthur Wesley Dow taught Georgia O'Keeffe at Columbia University Teachers College.

O'Keeffe studied with Dow in New York in 1914 and 1915. His approach emphasized composition, line, color, and design rather than strict imitation of visible subjects. This teaching helped her move away from the academic realism that had dominated her earlier training and encouraged a more personal, simplified visual language.

Dow was an influential educator and artist whose ideas were shaped partly by Japanese art and design principles. O'Keeffe later credited his teaching with giving her a way to express ideas through formal elements. William Merritt Chase, by contrast, was an earlier teacher at the Art Students League, so the two names should not be treated as interchangeable.