Ghost Ranch inspired many of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico landscape paintings.
Ghost Ranch is a dramatic area near Abiquiu in northern New Mexico, known for red cliffs, mesas, and open desert views. O'Keeffe first visited the area in the 1930s and returned repeatedly, finding subjects that supported her simplified, sharply focused compositions.
Her paintings of the region include views of Pedernal, a flat-topped mountain that she famously described as a place she could paint even if she never saw it again. The ranch's geological forms helped shape the visual language associated with her New Mexico work.
Ghost Ranch was not O'Keeffe's principal owned residence. Her home and studio were at Abiquiu, while Ghost Ranch served as a nearby source of landscape subjects and a place where she stayed during parts of her New Mexico years.