The Ken Tyler video archive comprises over 40 hours of recorded screen and sound content, documenting Tyler’s fascinating collaborations with artists including Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Terence La Noue, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, John Newman, James Rosenquist, Steve Sorman and Frank Stella. The National Gallery of Australia hopes to be able to make much of this material accessible online via this website, including titles such as Reaching out 1973 (with Hockney and Lichtenstein), Welcome to the water planet 1989 (with Rosenquist) and Imaginary places 1997 (with Stella).

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The Big Americans: The art of collaboration

Ken Tyler is interviewed by artist and writer Robin Wallace-Crabbe within the exhibition The Big Americans: The art of collaboration. During the video Tyler discusses his collaboration over 40 years with the artists David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella, whose works are featured in the exhibition.

Recorded at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in October 2002. Duration 10:10

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Welcome to the Water Planet

James Rosenquist discusses his early career and his work with master printer Kenneth Tyler.

Narration by James Rosenquist (2006). Photography by Marabeth Cohen-Tyler.
Compiled and edited by Kaoru Alfonso, National Gallery of Australia.

Duration: 10 minutes

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Ok to Print

The artist Helen Frankenthaler working with master printer Kenneth Tyler at Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York, July 1994.
This video footage is drawn from the Kenneth Tyler Film and Sound Archive at the National Gallery of Australia.

Cinematography by Seth Schneidman. Location sound by Maryte Kavaliauskas.
On-line edit by Darren Murphy, d’indigo blend.
Compiled and edited by Jose Robertson and Karou Alfonso, National Gallery of Australia
Soundscapes by Patrice Riboust, National Gallery of Australia.
Duration: 10 minutes

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