Ghost Ranch inspired many of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings near Abiquiú, New Mexico.
Ghost Ranch is a dramatic landscape in northern New Mexico, known for multicolored cliffs, broad skies, and eroded formations. O'Keeffe began visiting the area in the 1930s and made it one of the principal sources for her landscape paintings.
She rented a small house at Ghost Ranch and spent extended periods working there. The surrounding terrain supplied subjects such as red cliffs, mesas, bones, and distant mountain forms. Her paintings transformed these recognizable places into simplified arrangements of color, shape, and space.
Ghost Ranch is sometimes confused with O'Keeffe's Abiquiú home and studio. The two locations are close and connected in her biography, but they are distinct sites. Abiquiú was the location of her restored adobe home, while Ghost Ranch was the remote landscape retreat that she repeatedly painted.