What New Mexico ranch became Georgia O'Keeffe's longtime home and studio?
Answer
Ghost Ranch
Ghost Ranch became Georgia O'Keeffe's longtime New Mexico home and studio.
O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917 and returned regularly during the 1920s. She was drawn to the region's dramatic cliffs, dry riverbeds, bones, and open sky, which became central subjects in her paintings. In 1940, she bought a house at Ghost Ranch, north of Abiquiú.
The ranch's multicolored cliffs and high-desert formations appear in works such as those depicting the Pedernal and the cliffs near her home. O'Keeffe sometimes referred to the landscape around Ghost Ranch as her private territory because of its powerful personal meaning.
She later acquired and restored a house in the village of Abiquiú, but Ghost Ranch remained the name most closely associated with her famous rural retreat. It is not the same place as Taos Pueblo or the D.H. Lawrence Ranch, both nearby New Mexico landmarks with separate histories.