Barbara Buhler Lynes – författare

Georgia O’Keeffe spent almost 40 years of her life in the American Southwest. Her two houses in New Mexico; at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and the landscapes around them became essential elements in her paintings. The mountains and arroyos, the skulls and the Jimson weeds, a ladder against a wall, a door; all transformed by her genius into a quintessentially American art. Astonishingly, the history of these houses has never before been written. In this volume, Barbara Buhler Lynes and Agapita Judy Lopez create a vibrant picture of O’Keeffe at home. Drawing on O’Keeffe’s correspondence, Lynes and Lopez set forth their fascinating story. An essay by architect Beverly Spears describes the distinctive characteristics of adobe architecture and its construction, and the many individuals involved with the house are identified. An appendix provides valuable information about the materials used in resorting the Abiquiu house. Photographs made especially for this book show the houses as they are today, plus dozens of photographs made by major photographers during her life show her living in the houses. Photographs of her painting and specific architectural components of the Abiquiu house are also included. These photographs and their accompanying texts offer for the first time a compelling picture of O’Keeffe’s life in New Mexico, how each house satisfied different aspects of the artist’s personal and professional needs and how O’Keeffe gradually transformed these Spanish Pueblo Revival style houses to reflect her modernist aesthetic.

When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in and around Alcalde, Abiquiu, and Ghost Ranch, with occasional excursions to remote sites she found particularly compelling. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico is the first book to analyze the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It reproduces the exhibition's 50 paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology. The book examines the magnificence of O'Keeffe's work through essays by three noted authors. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and organizer of the exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to the places that inspired her.Frederick Turner offers an illuminating essay contrasting O'Keeffe's fabled aloofness from the well-established art colony in Santa Fe with her intense closeness to the local landscape she so fiercely loved. Lesley Poling-Kempes furnishes a fascinating chronicle of O'Keeffe's years in the region as well as a useful explanation of the geological forces that produced the intense colors and dramatic shapes of the landscapes O'Keeffe painted. EXHIBIT SCHEDULE: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Santa Fe, New Mexico June 11-September 12, 2004 Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, Ohio October 1, 2004-January 16, 2005 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York January 28-May 08, 2005

Written by the premiere Georgia O’Keeffe scholar, My Life with Georgia O’Keeffe gives readers a glimpse into the politically fraught world of O’Keeffe’s estate and the politics at play in art, art history, and the art-authentication process. Before 1987, art historian Barbara Buhler Lynes specialized in Italian Renaissance art. Then she saw the O’Keeffe retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and everything changed. Astounded by O’Keeffe’s vision and vexed by questions the exhibit and catalogue left unanswered, Lynes began to research O’Keeffe. Her work led to the creation of the universal authentication tool for O’Keeffe’s work, the two-volume, 1,198-page Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, published in 1999. That same year, Lynes and her husband moved to Santa Fe, where she became the founding curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Part memoir, part history, My Life with Georgia O’Keeffe explores Lynes’s journey to becoming the expert on one of the world’s most recognized artists. Lynes divulges how she successfully navigated the complexities of the O’Keeffe estate, details the meticulous detective work required to identify works by an artist, and showcases the negotiation skills needed to work with museum curators, art collectors, and dealers. Fans of O’Keeffe and anyone interested in the art world will find this book a fascinating dive into how the defining document on O’Keeffe’s oeuvre came to be.

This elegant exhibition catalogue is presented by The San Diego Museum of Art to accompany the 2023 major exhibition O’Keeffe and Moore: From Bones and Stones to the Studio, which explores the evolution of Modernism through the work of Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore.