Ghost Ranch was the New Mexico retreat that inspired many of Georgia O'Keeffe's landscape paintings. The dramatic landscape lies near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico.
O'Keeffe first visited the area in 1934 and later rented a house there. She was drawn to its cliffs, mesas, bones, and intense colors, transforming local forms into simplified compositions that became central to her work.
One recurring landmark was Cerro Pedernal, a flat-topped mountain visible from the ranch. O'Keeffe painted it many times and famously said that it was her private mountain, although the mountain itself remained a real feature of the landscape.
Ghost Ranch and the Abiquiú house are related but not identical places. O'Keeffe used both, and the distinction matters when identifying the settings of her New Mexico paintings.