The New Mexico ranch where Georgia O'Keeffe kept a second home was Ghost Ranch.
Ghost Ranch lies near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico and is recognized for its towering sedimentary cliffs and expansive high-desert scenery. O'Keeffe maintained a home there in addition to her Abiquiú residence, allowing her to work directly amid the landscapes that repeatedly appeared in her paintings.
She painted the ranch’s cliffs, hills, roads, bones, and distant forms in simplified compositions. Her approach did not simply copy a view; she selected and enlarged shapes, altered scale, and used strong color relationships to create a distinctive visual language.
Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú are sometimes treated as interchangeable because both were important to O'Keeffe. They are separate locations, however. Ghost Ranch is the ranch landscape associated with her second home, while Abiquiú is the village containing her preserved principal home and studio.