Ghost Ranch became closely associated with Georgia O'Keeffe's later paintings.
Ghost Ranch is a dramatic area in northern New Mexico, near Abiquiu, known for red cliffs, mesas, and broad desert views. O'Keeffe first visited the region in the 1930s and repeatedly used its distinctive geological forms as subjects. The landscape offered the isolation, light, and large-scale shapes that became central to her work.
She painted parts of Ghost Ranch many times, including the prominent formation she called the “White Place.” Her New Mexico paintings also included animal bones, adobe buildings, roads, and the surrounding mountains.
Ghost Ranch is not the same place as Taos, another New Mexico location associated with artists. O'Keeffe spent time in both the wider northern New Mexico art world and the Abiquiu area, but Ghost Ranch is especially identified with the cliffs and mesas that recur in her paintings.