Ghost Ranch was Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico retreat famous for dramatic landscapes.
O'Keeffe first visited the area around Ghost Ranch in the 1930s and returned repeatedly to paint its cliffs, mesas, bones, and distant mountains. The property lies near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico and is known for its multicolored rock formations and broad, open terrain.
She sometimes described the surrounding landscape as a place that felt like no other. The region supplied motifs for paintings such as works featuring the Pedernal, a flat-topped mountain visible from locations near her homes. O'Keeffe often simplified and enlarged natural forms rather than recording them as conventional topographical views.
Ghost Ranch is not the same as O'Keeffe's Abiquiú home and studio. Abiquiú was her permanent residence from 1949, while Ghost Ranch was a remote retreat and creative subject. The site is also known for archaeology, paleontology, and its later educational and retreat programs.