Who taught Georgia O'Keeffe at the Art Students League in New York?

William Merritt Chase taught Georgia O'Keeffe at the Art Students League in New York. O'Keeffe attended the school in 1907 and studied under Chase, a prominent American painter and influential teacher. Chase encouraged academic drawing and painting based on direct observation.

While studying there, O'Keeffe won the League’s William Merritt Chase still-life prize for a painting titled Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot. The award showed that she had strong traditional technical skills before developing the simplified and abstract style that later made her famous.

O'Keeffe’s artistic education also included study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later the University of Virginia’s summer school. Robert Henri was another important figure in her development, but he was not the teacher named in this question. Chase’s role belongs specifically to her 1907 training at the Art Students League.