O'Keeffe at the University of Virginia, 1912–1914

[2][3] A year later, on October 19, 2018, the exhibition opened at the Fralin Museum of Art on the grounds of the University of Virginia, where it remained on display until January 27, 2019.

[6] In 1908, O'Keeffe had become discouraged about creating representative works of art, her mother's poor health, her father's bankruptcy,[6][7] and, later, her parents' separation.

[1][5] Alon Bemet, a Columbia University Teachers College faculty member, led the class that introduced innovative ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow that were based upon Japanese art design and composition principles.

[9] "The compositions are simple and refined, with flattened shapes, minus the frills and minute details of representationalism," according to Kathaleen Roberts of the Albuquerque Journal.

[12] In 1915, O'Keefe had an epiphany that changed the way she created art from that time forward, based upon what she had learned from Dow:[13] "I was alone and singularly free, working on my own, unknown, (with) no one to satisfy but myself."