Barbara Buhler Lynes

Barbara Buhler Lynes is an art historian, specializing in American Modernism, curator, professor, and the leading expert on the art of Georgia O'Keeffe. She has taught art history at Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, and the Maryland Institute, College of Art, among others, and from 1999-2012 was curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she established the Museum's exhibition program and organized and wrote catalog essays for numerous exhibitions including the ground-breaking "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction." As the Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, she established and oversaw its competitive scholar program sponsoring research on American Modernism (1890s to present), organized lecture programs, publications, and scholarly symposia at the Research Center and on the Museum's website. She holds a doctoral degree in French Literature, University of California, Riverside, a doctoral degree in Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington, and has written books, book chapters, and essays on O'Keeffe and other American modernists, including the award winning two volume 1999 catalogue raisonné that documents and authenticates O'Keeffe's extensive oeuvre.