Which New Mexico peak repeatedly appeared in Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings?

Cerro Pedernal is the New Mexico peak that repeatedly appeared in Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings. The flat-topped mountain rises near Abiquiu and became one of her recurring landscape subjects.

O'Keeffe painted Pedernal from different viewpoints and under changing conditions of light and weather. Its distinctive mesa-like shape made it immediately recognizable, while repeated study allowed her to explore simplified outlines, color fields, and spatial relationships.

She once described the mountain as her private mountain and famously said that God told her it was hers. That quotation is widely associated with her attachment to the place, although it should be understood as a personal artistic statement rather than a formal geographic claim.

Cerro Pedernal is sometimes confused with the broader Sangre de Cristo Mountains or with other New Mexico peaks. Those ranges and summits also appear in regional art, but Pedernal's isolated profile is especially associated with O'Keeffe.