Ghost Ranch supplied many landscapes for Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings.
Ghost Ranch is a retreat and former ranch in northern New Mexico, near Abiquiú. O'Keeffe first encountered the area in the 1930s and repeatedly painted its cliffs, mesas, bones, and expansive desert surroundings. She described the landscape as a place where she could work independently and find subjects that were visually powerful.
The ranch's distinctive red and yellow rock formations appear in works associated with O'Keeffe's New Mexico period. Its scenery also became familiar through later popular culture and tourism, but O'Keeffe's paintings helped establish its importance in American art.
Ghost Ranch and O'Keeffe's Abiquiú home are related but different places. She lived and worked at both, while the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is located in Santa Fe. These distinctions matter because the locations represent separate parts of her New Mexico life.