Abiquiú became Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico home after she restored a historic adobe house there.
O'Keeffe acquired and restored a house in Abiquiú, a village north of Santa Fe. The property had a distinctive walled garden and a door set in an adobe wall. That door became one of her best-known recurring subjects and appears in paintings such as Door/Head/White Hollyhock—Hills.
The Abiquiú house was not the same as Ghost Ranch, another New Mexico place strongly associated with O'Keeffe. Ghost Ranch, farther north, provided dramatic desert and mountain scenery that she painted repeatedly. Abiquiú was her settled home and studio environment, while Ghost Ranch was a landscape and retreat that also influenced her work.
O'Keeffe's connection to Abiquiú lasted for the rest of her life. The house and studio are now preserved as the Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio, a National Historic Landmark managed by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Visitors often recognize the setting from her paintings of adobe walls, doors, and surrounding hills.