The Courtauld Gallery is to stage a new exhibition exploring how Georgia O'Keeffe's remote New Mexico home at Ghost Ranch shaped her celebrated paintings of the American desert landscape. The show, titled Georgia O'Keeffe: Ghost Ranch and opening in October 2027, aims to deepen understanding in the UK of an artist whose work has rarely been exhibited there despite her significant international reputation as one of the most important 20th-century American modernists.

The exhibition will feature almost two dozen works never previously shown in the UK, including pieces such as Red and Yellow Cliffs and Gerald's Tree I, which directly reflect the landscape surrounding her home. O'Keeffe moved to the 21,000-acre property, north of Santa Fe, in 1934 and eventually bought it, calling it "my country" from the moment she saw it; her ashes were later scattered there. Karen Serres, senior curator of paintings at the Courtauld, said the ranch was central to O'Keeffe's art and life, drawing a parallel between her close-up flower paintings and her treatment of the surrounding landscape. Ghost Ranch, distinct from her other, publicly accessible New Mexico home in Abiquiú, remains closed to the public but was the setting for famous photoshoots, including one with Cecil Beaton for Vogue, and for stories O'Keeffe herself spread about a murder having taken place there.