Ghost Ranch was Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico home and landscape retreat north of Abiquiú.
Ghost Ranch is a dramatic area of cliffs, mesas, and desert near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico. O'Keeffe first visited the area in the late 1920s and began painting its distinctive red and yellow formations. The landscape became one of the defining subjects of her later career.
She rented a house at Ghost Ranch and worked there for part of the year, while her Abiquiú home provided another base. The broad views, isolated formations, and changing light allowed her to study the same terrain repeatedly without treating it as merely a backdrop.
Ghost Ranch had a complicated earlier history, including links to cattle ranching and the Palmer family. The name is commonly associated with O'Keeffe because her paintings made its cliffs and horizons internationally recognizable. It is not the same place as Canyon Road in Santa Fe, another New Mexico art landmark.