Which mountain did Georgia O'Keeffe repeatedly paint near her New Mexico home?

Cerro Pedernal was the mountain Georgia O'Keeffe repeatedly painted near her New Mexico home.

The flat-topped volcanic mountain rises in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. O'Keeffe could see it from her house near Abiquiú, and it became one of the most recognizable recurring forms in her work.

She painted the mountain from different viewpoints and in changing light, treating it less as a single landscape record than as a persistent visual presence. Its isolated shape also connected her art to the geology and large-scale spaces of the Southwest.

Cerro Pedernal is sometimes confused with the cliffs of Ghost Ranch, another major O'Keeffe subject. The two sites are geographically related but visually distinct: Pedernal is a solitary, flat-topped mountain, while Ghost Ranch is known for layered cliffs and canyons.