Ghost Ranch inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of red cliffs and became her summer home.
Ghost Ranch is a dramatic area in northern New Mexico, near Abiquiú, known for colorful cliffs and broad desert views. O'Keeffe began visiting the area in the late 1920s and later used it as a summer home and studio setting.
The landscape supplied subjects for paintings such as Ranchos Church, Red Hills, and other works featuring cliffs, hills, and expansive skies. O'Keeffe often returned to the same landscape while changing scale, viewpoint, and color.
Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú are related but not interchangeable. Ghost Ranch is the larger landscape and retreat; Abiquiú is the village where O'Keeffe owned and lived in a historic adobe house. Pedernal, a distinctive mountain, was another nearby recurring subject.