Which New Mexico landscape area did Georgia O'Keeffe first visit in 1934?

Georgia O'Keeffe first visited Ghost Ranch in 1934.

Ghost Ranch is a dramatic area in northern New Mexico, near Abiquiu, known for red cliffs, mesas, arid valleys, and expansive skies. O'Keeffe began visiting the area in 1934, and its geological forms became among the most recognizable landscapes in her work. She returned repeatedly and maintained a house there for periods of her New Mexico life.

The scenery offered a sharp contrast to the urban and architectural subjects associated with her years in New York. O'Keeffe translated cliffs and mountains into simplified shapes and intense areas of color rather than producing straightforward topographic views.

Ghost Ranch is sometimes mistaken for Abiquiu because the two places are closely connected in O'Keeffe's biography and lie in the same broad region. They are distinct locations: Abiquiu became the site of her permanent home, while Ghost Ranch supplied a particularly important landscape setting.