Which New Mexico mountain did Georgia O'Keeffe paint repeatedly?

Georgia O'Keeffe repeatedly painted Cerro Pedernal, a flat-topped mountain in northern New Mexico. Its distinctive profile made it one of the most recognizable geological forms in her landscapes.

O'Keeffe first encountered the mountain while living and working in New Mexico. She later described it as her private mountain and painted it from different viewpoints and in changing conditions. The mountain's strong horizontal summit and isolated shape suited her interest in reducing landscapes to essential forms.

Cerro Pedernal lies in the Jemez Mountains region, near Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch. O'Keeffe's connection to the site was both visual and personal: she eventually owned land that included the mountain's summit area. Her paintings do not function as ordinary topographical records; they simplify and reorganize the landscape through color, scale, and composition.

Cerro Pedernal is sometimes confused with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains or other New Mexico peaks that also appear in discussions of O'Keeffe. Its flat summit is the key identifying feature.