Ghost Ranch inspired many Georgia O'Keeffe paintings after she first visited it in 1934.
The ranch is a dramatic landscape near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico, known for red cliffs, mesas, and open desert space. O'Keeffe found the area visually powerful and repeatedly returned to its formations as subjects for paintings and drawings.
She later acquired a house at Ghost Ranch and used the location as one of her important working environments. Its cliffs and distant horizons appear in works associated with her New Mexico period, alongside depictions of animal bones, adobe structures, and the Pedernal.
Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú are related but not identical places. Abiquiú is the nearby village associated with O'Keeffe's home, while Ghost Ranch is the larger landscape property north of it. Both became essential to understanding her Southwestern imagery.