Barbara Buhler Lynes is the curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. She is the leading expert on the art of painter Georgia O'Keeffe. She holds doctoral degrees in French Literature and Art History and has written books, book chapters, essays, and numerous exhibition catalogues on O'Keeffe and other American modernists, including the 1999 catalogue raisonné that documents and authenticates O'Keeffe's extensive oeuvre.