Which New Mexico landscape inspired Georgia O'Keeffe’s paintings of a dark volcanic hill?

The Black Place inspired Georgia O'Keeffe’s paintings of a dark volcanic hill.

The Black Place is a stark landscape in New Mexico that O'Keeffe visited and painted repeatedly. Its dark rock, eroded forms, and sharply contrasting surroundings offered a dramatic subject unlike the lighter cliffs and pale bones that also appear in her work.

O'Keeffe gave her own names to several New Mexican landscapes, including the Black Place and the White Place. These names are part of the way she described her personal visual geography, rather than standard names for conventional towns or parks.

The Black Place is sometimes confused with Pedernal Mountain, another important O'Keeffe subject. Pedernal became one of her most recognizable recurring forms, while the Black Place refers to a different dark, rugged landscape north of her Abiquiú area.