Time-lapse photography offers a glimpse of the spectacular views from O’Keeffe’s home at Ghost Ranch, a former dude ranch located on 21,000 acres of high desert landscape sixty-five miles northwest of Santa Fe. Looking south to the distant blue mountain, known as the Cerro Pedernal (Flint Hill), and north to the nearby red and yellow cliffs, it is easy to imagine how she was inspired to paint the ever-changing panorama she experienced daily. O’Keeffe first painted the purple hills of Ghost Ranch in 1934 and in 1936 she began renting a house that she bought in 1940—an adobe hacienda at the base of the cliffs with a patio facing the distant mountains. Her landscape paintings were transformed by the color and grandeur of the surrounding landscape.
