Georgia and The Great Southwest Part One- Mt. Pedernal

“It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me. 

God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.” 



Georgia O’Keeffe






Pedernal -1942






The mountains of New Mexico were among O’Keeffe’s favorite subjects to paint. The flat-topped Cerro Pedernal, a unique mesa near the town of Abiquiu, fascinated her.



 She referred to it as her mountain and joked,



 “God told me if I