Ghost Ranch was the New Mexico ranch that inspired many Georgia O'Keeffe paintings.
O'Keeffe first visited the area north of Abiquiu in 1934 and returned repeatedly. The ranch's dramatic cliffs, arid colors, broad skies, and distinctive rock formations became important subjects in her work. She painted the landscape from changing viewpoints and in different seasons, treating familiar terrain as a source of continual visual discovery.
Ghost Ranch is in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, near the village of Abiquiu. It is often confused with O'Keeffe's Abiquiu home, but the two places are distinct. Ghost Ranch was a landscape setting she visited and painted, whereas Abiquiu became her permanent home after she acquired and restored a historic adobe house there. Paintings associated with the Ghost Ranch region include works featuring red hills, cliffs, and the nearby Pedernal mountain, which O'Keeffe famously described as her private mountain.