Abiquiú became associated with Georgia O'Keeffe's studio and home after she acquired the property in 1945.
O'Keeffe acquired a ruined hacienda in the village of Abiquiú in 1945 and had it restored. The property included a distinctive courtyard wall and a door that she had painted repeatedly before she could finally make the building her home.
She moved into the Abiquiú house in 1949, after Alfred Stieglitz's death. The home provided a quiet base for painting and became an important source of architectural and landscape motifs in her work.
Abiquiú is different from Ghost Ranch, another northern New Mexico location strongly linked to O'Keeffe. She owned the Abiquiú property, while Ghost Ranch served as a landscape and working setting. The Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio is now preserved as a historic site.