Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico home with the distinctive courtyard door was her Abiquiu home.
O'Keeffe began renting the abandoned Abiquiu house in 1945 and eventually purchased it. The property had a thick adobe wall and a door that became one of her most recognizable subjects. She repeatedly painted and photographed the door, treating the architectural feature as an abstract arrangement of shape, light, and shadow rather than merely as part of a building.
The Abiquiu house was restored and preserved after O'Keeffe's death. Today it is operated as a historic site associated with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and is open to visitors through scheduled tours. The house and studio reveal how closely her daily environment was connected to her work.
Abiquiu is often confused with Ghost Ranch, another New Mexico location where O'Keeffe lived and worked. Ghost Ranch supplied dramatic cliffs and desert views, while the Abiquiu property provided the courtyard wall and door that became recurring motifs. The two sites were important but not interchangeable.