Georgia O'Keeffe Home - Charlottesville

Georgia O'Keeffe's home is located on Wertland Street in Charlottesville, Virginia.  In the summer of 1912 the University of Virginia began offering select courses for women and the up and coming artist took advantage of this by enrolling in a course being taught by visiting artist Alon Bement on the design philosophies of American artist Arthur Wesley Dow.  From 1913 to 1916 she returned every summer as a teaching assistant, and while working on campus she stayed in this home, which her mother began renting in 1909.  Her several years in the community afforded her time to find herself as an artist and she excelled in a series of watercolors produced around the area.  Slowly her work began to attain a more abstract style and by 1914 she had gone to New York where she met and worked with Dow.  By 1916, the year she left Charlottesville for good, her work was being shown by her future husband Alfred Stieglitz in his famous 291 Gallery in New York.      

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