"Ghost Ranch, New Mexico"

The Ghost Ranch was made famous by Georgia O'Keefe and her friends.  Georgia came to New Mexico from New York City where she lived with her husband Alfred Stieglitz. She spent summers here and winters in New York.  She loved the west and painted hundreds of paintings of the region and its colored rock formations.   She loved its isolation and had a small house on the ranch.   The Ghost Ranch has been acquired by a religious group and presently uses it for conferences, retreats and rents it to other groups.  Georgia eventually make a permanent home in Abiquiu where the O'Keefe Foundation is still housed.   You have to make reservation as much as a year in advance to get in.  Most of her work is now in the Santa Fe Art Museum.

©1999 Elroy Christenson