Collection Information
Size: 0.4 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of Chicago painter Alice Kellogg Tyler measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1875 to circa 1990. The papers document Tyler's Chicago work and her days as an art student in Paris. Found are an unsigned drawing, correspondence, diaries and notebooks, printed material, photographs, and slides.
Biographical/Historical Note
Alice Kellogg Tyler (1862-1900) was a painter in Chicago, Illinois. Tyler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (later the Art Institute of Chicago) and in Paris at the Académie Julian and Colarossi. She won distinction for her painting in the Paris Salon, the Paris Universal Exposition (1889), and in the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1893).
Provenance
The donor and lender, JoAnne Wiemers Bowie, is the great-grandniece of Tyler.
Related Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming on reel 4183 (frames 471-952) including 138 sketches and notes, 2 sketchbooks and 7 etchings by Tyler and 2 sketchbooks by her husband, Orno James Tyler. 2 books are "Singing Verses for Children" (1897) and "The Excellent Becomes the Permanent" (1932). Items were returned to the lender after filming and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Language Note
English .
Funding Note
Processing of this collection received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.