Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Cerro Pedernal

Painted numerous times by Georgia O’Keeffe, and in our view from our house rental at
Abiquiu Lake.  We feel as if we’re living in a painting.

“Georgia O’Keeffe’s favorite painting subject was the Pedernal, a 10,000 foot tabletop mountain that happened to be the first thing she saw from her Ghost Ranch home in the morning and the last thing she saw in the evening.  She called the Pedernal her private mountain, and said, “God told me if I painted it often enough I could have it.”  She painted it 28 times.  In 1986, O’Keeffe died and her ashes were scattered on the Pedernal.”