Which New Mexico site was Georgia O'Keeffe's summer home for many years?

Ghost Ranch was Georgia O'Keeffe's summer home for many years.

Ghost Ranch is a dramatic landscape near Abiquiú in northern New Mexico. O'Keeffe began visiting the area in the late 1920s and maintained a home there, using the surrounding cliffs, mesas, bones, and desert forms as subjects. The region became one of the most recognizable settings associated with her work.

Her paintings of Ghost Ranch often isolate a single geological feature or natural object. She transformed the landscape through cropping, scale, and simplified shapes rather than presenting it as a conventional panoramic view. The red and yellow cliffs around the ranch became particularly important visual motifs.

Ghost Ranch is sometimes confused with Abiquiú because the two places are geographically close and both were O'Keeffe homes. They are distinct locations: Ghost Ranch was her summer base, while Abiquiú became her permanent home in 1949. Both helped shape the New Mexico period of her career.