Georgia O'Keeffe’s New Mexico home known for its courtyard door was her Abiquiú house.
O'Keeffe bought the abandoned adobe house in Abiquiú in 1945 and spent years having it restored. She moved into the house in 1949, after Alfred Stieglitz’s death, and it became one of her principal homes and studios.
A door opening onto a courtyard became an important subject in her paintings. O'Keeffe repeatedly studied the simple geometric form, surrounding walls, and changing light. The house’s architecture therefore became not only a residence but also a source of visual ideas.
The Abiquiú house is often confused with Ghost Ranch, another New Mexico place strongly associated with O'Keeffe. Ghost Ranch supplied landscapes and memories, while the Abiquiú property was her carefully restored home. Both locations were important, but they were not the same house.