All of us here in the Tyler Collection are saddened to hear of the death of artist Claes Oldenburg, who has passed away aged 93. Oldenburg worked with Kenneth Tyler on several projects including his iconic Ice bag works in 1971, and 1969’s Profile Airflow Vale #Oldenburg

In these photographs, you can see William Crutchfield applying this precision to the lithographic process. A series of stencils was devised so that he could airbrushed liquid tusche through onto the aluminium plates creating lustrous shading inside clean-cut lines #printmaking

‘Prints are no less important [than painting] to me. In them I’m able to use images and ideas I work over in painting and subject them to transformation’ - Jasper Johns, 1977 📸: © Malcolm Lubliner, 1971 #rauschenbergandjohns publications.nga.gov.au/significant-ot…

A happy birthday to Roy Lichtenstein <3 Tyler and Lichtenstein began working together in 1969 at the print workshop Gemini GEL, Los Angeles, and they would continue to work together until 1994. ‘Lamp’ a woodcut print from 1981 made on Okawara paper is one of our favourites!

These two colour maps show the fastidious planning necessary to create Prime Moments II, a combination of screenprint and hand-painting. It was printed in 7 colours, and then each impression was hand-painted with 26 colour mixtures of polymer colourant and pigment #AlHeld #print

In 1988 Helen #Frankenthaler embarked on an ambitious project with to produce a large hybrid folding screen, 'Gateway'. Working with Toni Putnam, Frankenthaler used sulfides, nitrates and oxides to patinate the bronze panels, before applying oil paint and sealing in a lacquer.

The surface of a prepared copper plate is an alluring material filled with potential. These photographs capture the concentrated face of artist Nancy Graves as she works on intaglio plates for the Synecdoche series #NancyGraves #KennethTyler #printmaking #prints #intaglio #etch

In 1993 Frederic Tuten wrote of David Salle’s ‘High and Low’ series that ‘Salle’s imagery has always held a multivalence of feeling and allusion, forming part of the emotional and intellectual weave of his art’. Photo: Jim McHugh, 1993

Sampling, arranging, and collaging are key to the artistic process of Roy Lichtenstein. These photographs show a smattering of the inspirational materials dispersed around his studio during the creation of his ‘Nudes’ series #RoyLichtenstein #KennethTyler #printmaking #relief

A colour trial proof (CTP) is created before the colours for an edition have been determined, showing the artist’s process. Helen Frankenthaler would continue to refine works over long periods. These CTPs for ‘Day one’ were created in 1980, the final print was published in 1987.

A look at Ellsworth Kelly's Colored Paper Image series, 1976 kennethtylercollection.net/2022/11/22/ben…

‘The Faithful Nutcracker’ was included in a limited 250 first edition release of ‘Nutcracker’, illustrated by Maurice Sendak and published in 1984. He had collaborated on a production of The Nutcracker with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, premiering the previous year #MauriceSendak

The flattened portraits of the ‘Modern head’ series take inspiration from historic art movements including the patterning of Art Deco, spatial perspective of Cubism and the smooth lines of Ancient Greek profiles #RoyLichtenstein #printmaking

A very happy 85th birthday to Ed Ruscha! We hope you’ve got your party hat on. Photo: Billy Al Bengston (centre) and Ed Ruscha (right) at a party held at Gemini GEL, Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, February 1968#EdRuscha #KennethTyler #TylerCollection #printmaking #GeminiGEL

#Lichtenstein kept an archive of comics to make his work. Painting the nude in the mid-90s, he would alter comic strip panels to ‘undress’ the comic characters. This photo shows the paintings ‘Blue nude’, ‘Nude with street scene’ and ‘Nude with yellow beach bag’ under development

A new home for our blog! kennethtylercollection.net/2023/03/27/a-n…

In 1989 Tyler Graphics published artist Frank Stella’s ‘Bene come il sale’ a monumental etching in 16 assembled plates. Here the work is inked and proofed by Kenneth Tyler in 1988. #abstractart #printmaking

“I think [the cup is] a real kind of primal idiom… Cups of the future will be surfaces for advertising” Originally based on photographs of a nude model posing with a cup, Kenneth Price's ‘Figurine cup V’ 1970, references the advertising of 60s LA. Lithograph. Purchased 1973.

‘The beauty of [this] material belongs to no-one, because it is only a physio-chemical product’. Read about the photograms that #ManRay produced during the early days of Gemini, their links to Dada and Surrealism and a legacy-defining exhibition. nga.gov.au/stories-ideas/…

The Tyler studios were as full of antics as they were artmaking. In 1978, apart from riding on the front of a tractor driven by Kenneth Tyler, Kenneth Noland was working on his Handmade Paper project, producing geometric works of circles and stripes. #kennethnoland #kennethtyler