Ghost Ranch was the New Mexico landscape area where Georgia O'Keeffe maintained a home. Its cliffs, mesas, and vivid geological formations supplied subjects for many of her paintings.
O'Keeffe first visited the area in the 1930s and later made it one of her principal places to work. She painted distinctive formations such as the cliffs known as the Pedernal, whose flat summit became an especially recognizable motif in her art.
Ghost Ranch is near Abiquiú, but the two places are not identical. O'Keeffe's Abiquiú house was an adobe residence in the village, while Ghost Ranch was a larger rural landscape and retreat. Both locations remain important to understanding her New Mexico period.