Abiquiú became Georgia O'Keeffe's main New Mexico home in the 1940s.
O'Keeffe began visiting New Mexico in 1929 and returned regularly for decades, finding subjects in its cliffs, bones, flowers, and wide-open landscapes. In 1945 she purchased and later restored a neglected adobe house in Abiquiú. She moved into it permanently in 1949, after Alfred Stieglitz's death.
The Abiquiú house is distinct from Ghost Ranch, another New Mexico location closely associated with O'Keeffe. Ghost Ranch was where she lived and worked for periods, while the Abiquiú property became her principal year-round residence. The two places are sometimes blended together in short biographies.
O'Keeffe's Abiquiú compound included a famous courtyard wall and door, which appeared in several paintings. The house is now preserved by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and is open for limited tours, making it an unusually direct link between her working life and her art.