Which Georgia O'Keeffe painting series focuses on the landscape known as the Black Place?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Black Place series focuses on the dark, sharply eroded landscape she called the Black Place. The site lies near Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico.

O'Keeffe began painting the Black Place after making it a regular subject during her New Mexico visits. The formations appear as dark ridges and curves against the surrounding desert, and she often simplified them into strong abstract shapes. Her paintings do not attempt to map the location like topographic studies; instead, they express how the place looked and felt to her.

The series is sometimes confused with O'Keeffe's paintings of the White Place, another nearby landscape whose pale formations offered a striking contrast. Her repeated treatment of both sites shows how she returned to familiar places while changing scale, viewpoint, color, and composition.