Georgia O'Keeffe made her permanent home in New Mexico after leaving New York.
O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917 and returned repeatedly during the 1920s and 1930s. She was drawn to the region's intense light, broad skies, mountains, desert forms, adobe architecture, and Indigenous and Hispanic cultural traditions.
After Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946, O'Keeffe moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949. She lived and worked at Ghost Ranch and later at a home in Abiquiú. The state's landscapes became central subjects in her mature work.
O'Keeffe is often described as a New Mexico artist, although she was born in Wisconsin and spent important years in New York. Her New Mexico paintings include architectural details, bones, flowers, cliffs, and abstracted landscape forms.