Barbara Buhler Lynes

Barbara Buhler Lynes (born 1942) is an art historian, curator, professor, and preeminent scholar on the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe. She retired on February 14, 2020 from her position as the Sunny Kaufman Senior Curator at the NSU Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to continue her scholarly work on O'Keeffe and American modernism. From 1999 to 2012, she served as the founding curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she curated or oversaw more than thirty exhibitions of works by O'Keeffe and her contemporaries. Lynes was also the Founding Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center from 2001 to 2012. Prior to her work at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Lynes served as an independent consultant to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from 1992 to 1999 and has taught art history at Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, Montgomery College, and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

Lynes holds a PhD in French Literature from the University of California, Riverside and a PhD in Art History from Indiana University Bloomington. She has written books, book chapters, and essays on O'Keeffe and other American modernists, including the award-winning two volume Georgia O'Keeffe catalogue raisonné (1999) that documents and authenticates O'Keeffe's extensive oeuvre.

Books

*''Exhibiting O'Keeffe: The Making of an American Modernist: Museum of Modern Art 1946'', 2023https://publications.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibiting-okeeffe/
*''O'Keeffe and Moore'', 2023
*''O'Keeffe: A Life Well Lived'', 2020
*''Wiliiam J. Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions'', 2018
*''Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstracting Nature'', 2018
*''Georgia O'Keeffe, un phénomène américain: questions d'identité'', 2015
*''Photography Changes Our Public Image'', 2012
*''Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu'', 2012
*''Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land'', 2012
*''Georgia O'Keeffe'', 2011
*''Shared Intelligence: American Painting and The Photograph'', 2011
*''Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction'', 2009
*''Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place'', 2009
*''Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity'', 2008
*''Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Subjects of Self'', 2008
*''Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley in New Mexico'', 2008
*''The 1980s: A Virtual Discussion'', 2007
*''Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections'', 2007
*''Georgia O'Keeffe: Identity and Place'', 2007
*''Introduction and Overview: Visiting Georgia O'Keeffe'', 2006
*''Moments in Modernism—Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol: Flowers of Distinction'', 2005
*''Museums of Tomorrow: A Virtual Discussion'', 2004
*''Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico : A Sense of Place'', 2004
*''Maria Chabot—Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence 1941–1949'', 2003
*''Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Highlights of the Collection'', 2003
*''Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion,''
*''Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940'', 2002
*''Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916 and 1917: My Own Tune'', 2001
*''O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection'', 2001
*''O'Keeffe on Paper'', 2000
*''Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné'', 1999
*''Georgia O'Keeffe'', 1993
*''The Language of Criticism: Its Effect on Art of Georgia O'Keeffe'', 1992
*''O'Keeffe and Feminism: A Problem of Position'', 1992
*''O'Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916–1929'', 1989

References

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American art curators
American women curators
American art historians
Living people
American women art historians
21st-century American women
1942 births