Experience the Magic and Mystery of Ghost Ranch...

In 1940, Georgia O'Keeffe purchased a home and 7 acres at Ghost Ranch. In 1977, O'Keeffe wrote: "The cliffs over there are almost painted for you -- you think -- until you try to paint them." She often talked about her fondness for Ghost Ranch, as in 1943, when she explained: "Such a beautiful, untouched lonely feeling place, such a fine part of what I call the 'Faraway.' It is a place I have painted before . . . even now I must do it again." - Excerpt from Wikipedia

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Did you know that Georgia O'Keeffe
designed the Ghost Ranch logo?

"Rancho de los Brujos" it was called; "Ranch of the Witches," haunted by evil spirits. It is not surprising that today's name for this land is "Ghost Ranch," and the logo is a cow's skull.

For many years only a narrow dirt road led up the twisting Chama River Valley northwest from Abiquiu. The turn-off to Ghost Ranch was marked by an animal skull long before Arthur Pack bought the ranch in 1936.

There were many bones to be seen in this high desert country and O'Keeffe was entranced by them, painting them, displaying them, and shipping a barrelful back to New York. One of her Ghost Ranch neighbors, a Navaho named Juan de Dios, had a pet steer of which he was very fond. When it died, he gave the animal's skull to O'Keeffe for her collection. O'Keeffe made a drawing of this ox skull and presented it to Arthur Pack as a gift. He promptly adopted the artwork as the logo for Ghost Ranch.

Arthur Pack gave Ghost Ranch to the Presbyterian Church who, for a time, used a sketch of Chimney Rock as a logo. By 1971, partly at O'Keeffe's suggestion, her familiar skull design was firmly established as the official Ghost Ranch logo.