Ghost Ranch inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills.
Ghost Ranch is a retreat and education center near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico. O'Keeffe first visited the area in the 1930s and repeatedly painted its cliffs, mesas, and changing light. She later described the landscape as one of her favorite places.
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills combines a ram's skull and a white hollyhock with the distant red cliffs of Ghost Ranch. The arrangement turns separate natural objects into a carefully designed vertical composition, linking foreground forms to the immense landscape behind them.
O'Keeffe painted many New Mexico subjects at Ghost Ranch, but she also worked at her Abiquiú home and elsewhere in the region. The painting is therefore associated with Ghost Ranch rather than with White Sands or Canyon de Chelly. Those places belong to New Mexico's broader landscape history but are not the specific setting identified for this work.