Barbara Buhler Lynes Explained

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.^[1] 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).^[2]

Lynes holds a PhD in French Literature from the University of California, Riverside^[3] and a PhD in Art History from Indiana University Bloomington.^[4] ^[5] 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, 2023^[6]
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

Notes and References

News: Kareska. Christopher. Barbara Buhler Lynes to be NSU Museum of Art's Senior Curator. 8 March 2015. May 28, 2014.
Web site: Barbara Buhler Lynes Resigns Her Positions at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum . 8 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134403/http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/uploads/5/7/4/1/5741005/bbl_resignation_press_release_final_pdf.pdf . 2 April 2015 .
Walsh, Barbara Buhler. “Love and Time in the Theater of Marivaux.” Ph.D dissertation—University University of California, Riverside, 1977.
Web site: Barbara Buhler Lynes LinkedIn profile. www.linkedin.com.
Walsh, Barbara Buhler. “The Fresco Paintings of Bicci di Lorenzo.” Ph.D. dissertation—Indiana University, 1979.
https://publications.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibiting-okeeffe/