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Kenneth Tyler honoured at IPCNY

May 24, 2013 by tylercollection

Each year the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), an institution ‘dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of fine art prints’ holds a spring benefit honouring luminaries of the print world. This year art writer Faye Hirsch, artist Robert Mangold and master-printer Ken Tyler were the honourees celebrated at a function on May 15. Frank Stella, Tyler’s long-time friend and collaborator, presented Tyler with his award and gave a presentation discussing Tyler’s unique printmaking career. These images were taken during the […]

Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Frank Stella, International Print Center, International Sculpture Center, Kenneth Tyler, Liam Alexander, New York

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Behind the scenes: treatment of Robert Motherwell’s ‘El negro’

March 28, 2013 by tylercollection

Robert Motherwell’s El negro recently made a trip to the National Gallery of Australia’s paper conservation department for some preventative treatment. We paid a visit to conservator Fiona Kemp to bring you these special behind-the-scenes shots of conservation in action! You can read more about the making of El negro in the Tyler Graphics Ltd. print documentation here: http://nga.gov.au/internationalprints/tyler/pamphlets/TylerTGL/MotherwellNegro.pdf For more information on Motherwell and his work with Tyler, visit our website: http://nga.gov.au/internationalprints/tyler/DEFAULT.cfm?MnuID=2&ArtistIRN=22859&List=True

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Expressionism, conservation, El negro, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, Raphael Alberti, Robert Motherwell, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Colored paper images’

February 27, 2013 by tylercollection

Ellsworth Kelly Colored paper images II, V and X 1976, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is currently showing Ellsworth Kelly’s Colored paper images, created with Kenneth Tyler at the Tyler Graphics workshop in Bedford Village in 1976. We thought this was an excellent reason to take a look at the series ourselves and to bring you some images from the candid photography collection. You can find out more about the National Gallery of […]

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Colored paper images, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Australia, paper pulp, papermaking, prints, Tyler Collection

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Kenneth Tyler AO

January 31, 2013 by tylercollection

On January 23 2013, at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC, the Honorable Kim Beazley AC conducted an Investiture Ceremony admitting Kenneth Tyler AO to the Order of Australia for service to the Arts, particularly through the Kenneth Tyler Collection here at the National Gallery of Australia and through philanthropy. We are very pleased to be able to bring you these photographs from the ceremony, courtesy of the Australian Government: The Hon Kim Beazley AC conducts the Investiture Ceremony […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Embassy of Australia, Kenneth Tyler, Kim Beazley, National Gallery of Australia, Order of Australia, Washington DC

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Season’s greetings!

December 21, 2012 by tylercollection

2012 has been a big year for the National Gallery’s Tyler Collection. We have learned the exciting news that Kenneth Tyler will be made an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia at an investiture ceremony in Washington DC on January 23, 2013. Ken has been nominated for this well-deserved honour for his ‘service to the Arts, particularly through the Kenneth Tyler Collection at the National Gallery of Australia and through philanthropy.’ In April the Roy Lichtenstein: Pop remix show […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Bruce Nauman, David Hockney, Ken Price, Kenneth Tyler, Maurice Sendak, Merry Christmas!, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Paul Jenkins, prints, Roy Lichtenstein, Seaon's greetings, Tony Albert, Tyler Collection, unDisclosed

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Josef Albers

November 22, 2012 by tylerblogs

Earlier this month Vogue Australia contacted us for permission to use two of our fabulous Josef Albers prints for their January 2013 issue. This got us thinking about the unique relationship that Kenneth Tyler shared with Albers, and below we have compiled some candid shots to accompany a brief history of the artist and master printer’s working relationship.    Tyler and Albers first worked together at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. When Tyler moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to set […]

Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: embossing, Gemini GEL, Josef Albers, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, screen-print, Vogue Australia

Word pictures

October 15, 2012 by tylercollection

To celebrate the National Year of Reading the children’s gallery here at the NGA is showing Word Pictures, an exhibition that focuses on the use of text in works of art. Four artists from the Tyler Collection – Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg – are represented. Below we have compiled a selection of  images showing these important artists at work on projects featured – or related to those featured – in the exhibition. Hover your cursor […]

Categories: Artists, Exhibitions, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Bruce Nauman, children's gallery, Claes Oldenburg, exhibitions, Gemini GEL, Jasper Johns, Kenneth Tyler, multiples, National Gallery of Australia, National Year of Reading, Robert Rauschenberg, Tyler Graphics Ltd, Word pictures

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New look Tyler Collection website

August 23, 2012 by tylercollection

Over the past few months we have been compiling new information for the Gallery’s Kenneth Tyler printmaking collection website, and working to make the site easier to use. The results are now online for you to explore here: http://nga.gov.au/InternationalPrints/Tyler/Default.cfm?MnuID=12 An important addition to the site is the new Tyler Graphics Ltd (TGL) team page, dedicated to the immensely talented group of printers and workshop staff that made the astonishing print projects produced at TGL possible. This page reveals the truly […]

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: David Hockney, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, Robert Motherwell, Tyler Graphics Ltd

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In memory of Robert Hughes, 1938 – 2012

August 8, 2012 by tylercollection

The International Print collection at the National Gallery of Australia has a special, historic connection to Robert Hughes. In 1973 – almost a decade before the Gallery opened its doors to the public – Hughes alerted then director James Mollison to the fact that master-printer Kenneth Tyler was looking to sell his collection of printers’ proofs. Tyler, who set up the Gemini GEL workshop in Los Angeles, had decided to move to the east coast and was looking for a […]

Categories: Gemini GEL • Tags: Gemini GEL, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, printmaking, prints, Robert Hughes

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Paul Jenkins, 1923 – 2012

June 26, 2012 by tylercollection

  We are sorry to report the death of  Tyler Collection artist, Paul Jenkins, who passed away on June 9 at the age of 88. Jenkins was a celebrated Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School, whose experiments with pouring, dripping, splashing and pooling paint directly onto canvas translated well into print and papermaking at Tyler’s Bedford Village workshop. Between 1979 and 1980, Jenkins created several prints with Tyler. These images from our candid photography collection show the spontaneous way in […]

Categories: Artists, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Abstract Expressionism, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, Paul Jenkins, Tyler Collection

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The Tyler candid photography collection

May 17, 2012 by tylercollection

The votes are in! You asked for more candid photographs from behind the scenes, so we thought we would begin with an overview of this unique collection. The Tyler candid photography collection contains thousands of rare candid photographs of artists at work in the  Tyler workshops, as well as in their own studios. The collection is an invalubale resource for students, teachers, scholars and fans of printmaking, providing a unique insight into the working methods of Tyler and his dedicated workshop […]

Categories: Artists, Behind-the-scenes, Gemini GEL, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: candid photography, Facebook, Helen Frankenthaler, James Rosenquist, Josef Albers, Kenneth Tyler, lithograph, Nancy Graves, National Gallery of Australia, Paul Jenkins, Tyler Collection

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Remembering Maurice Sendak

May 11, 2012 by tylercollection

Ken Tyler shares his memories of friend and collaborator, Maurice Sendak: I was not exposed to Maurice’s books as a young person, but fortunately as an adult I read his books and knew him as a friend.  His unique imagination, wit and humor enlightened all those he touched with his art and friendship. He was the epitome of the irascible and loving relative whose stories taught and amused you.  Knowing Maurice was very special.  Collaborating with him on his prints […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Kenneth Tyler, Maurice Sendak, National Gallery of Australia, prints, Where the Wild Things Are

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Maurice Sendak, 1928 – 2012

May 9, 2012 by tylercollection

The much-loved children’s book author and artist, Maurice Sendak, passed away yesterday, May 8, in Danbury, Connecticut. Sendak’s books – with their vivid, fantastical illustrations – have inspired a love of reading in generations of children who were at once terrified and delighted by the raucous adventures of his characters. Below is a discussion of Sendak’s collaboration with Kenneth Tyler, taken from an article written by Marabeth Cohen-Tyler in 2006. You can access the full version on our website here. […]

Categories: Artists, Tyler Graphics Ltd • Tags: Kenneth Tyler, Maurice Sendak, National Gallery of Australia, prints, Where the Wild Things Are

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Ken Price, 1935 – 2012

February 27, 2012 by tylercollection

It is with regret that we report the death of Kenneth Price on February 24, and extend our sympathies to his family and friends. Price worked on a series of prints with Kenneth Tyler at Gemini GEL in the early 1970s, but is best known for his ceramic sculptures. The National Gallery holds an example of his ceramic work in the International Painting and Sculpture collection: http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=116123 The prints Price produced at Gemini GEL are boldly coloured and often feature […]

Categories: Artists, Gemini GEL, Uncategorized • Tags: ceramic, Ken Price, Kenneth Price, Kenneth Tyler, National Gallery of Australia, sculpture

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