Ghost Ranch supplied the title and setting for many Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and became her New Mexico home in 1940.
Ghost Ranch is a dramatic landscape near Abiquiú, New Mexico, known for multicolored cliffs, mesas, and expansive desert views. O'Keeffe began spending summers there in the late 1930s and bought a house on the property in 1940.
She painted the surrounding landscape repeatedly, including cliffs and the nearby Cerro Pedernal. The area offered a different visual character from the darker formations she called the “Black Place.” Its high desert light and layered geology became central to her interpretation of northern New Mexico.
Ghost Ranch is now associated with education, retreat programs, and the former dude ranch developed by Arthur Newton Pack. It is not the same as O'Keeffe's adobe home in Abiquiú, although the two locations are close and both were important to her life and work.