Which New Mexico mountain inspired the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Pedernal?

Cerro Pedernal inspired the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Pedernal. The flat-topped mountain rises in northern New Mexico and was visible from areas where O'Keeffe lived and worked.

O'Keeffe painted and drew Pedernal repeatedly. She once described the mountain as her private mountain and said that she knew she could paint it because it was there. The distinctive mesa-like profile made it especially suitable for repeated study and variation.

Pedernal is part of the Jemez Mountains region. O'Keeffe's versions are artistic interpretations rather than topographic records, showing how she simplified and reworked a familiar landscape into an emblematic form.