Georgia O'Keeffe’s New Mexico house overlooking the Chama Valley was her Abiquiú House.
O'Keeffe began renting the abandoned adobe house in Abiquiú in 1945 and bought it in 1949. She had the building restored and made it her winter home and studio. Its courtyard, walls, doors, and surrounding landscape became recurring visual subjects, not just a private backdrop.
The house is especially associated with a weathered black door set in an adobe wall. O'Keeffe painted that doorway repeatedly because she found its forms and shadows visually compelling. The building’s architecture also helped shape the large, simplified compositions of her later work.
The Abiquiú property is distinct from Ghost Ranch, another important place in O'Keeffe’s New Mexico life, and from her later Santa Fe home. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum preserves and interprets the Abiquiú house and studio as historic places connected to her working methods.