Alice Tyler

Artist Details

• First Name Alice
• Middle Name DeWolf
• Maiden Name Kellogg
• Alternate Name(s) Alice DeWolf Kellogg
• Surname Tyler
• Spouse’s Full Name Ono James Tyler businessman and self-taught artist;  had worked as secretary of Story and Clark Organ and Piano Company;  married 1894
• Birth Date December 27, 1862
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date February 14, 1900
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Residence(s) family farm in Evergreen Park, Chicago, Illinois
  
  possibly shared with Pauline Dohn
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) mid-1880s-?: Central Music Hall, with Ida C. Haskell [her best friend] shared one with Pauline Dohn
• Categories Muralist, Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
• Training 1879-?: Chicago Academy of Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois [one of first students]; student of Henry Fenton Spread, Lawrence Carmichael Earle, J. Roy Robertson
  1887: L’Ecole Julian, Paris, France; student of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre
  1887: Colorassi School, Paris, France; student of Gustave Courtois, Jean Rixens, Pascal Dagnan=Bouveret
  1887: student of Charles Lasar, Paris, France
  
• Relevant Travel October 1887-August 1889: France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, England; with Ida C. Haskell, with Gertrude Kellogg, and Haskell’s mother
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1883: First Annual Exhibition, Bohemian Art Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1888: Paris Salon, Paris, France
  
  1889: Exposition Universelle, Paris, France; Miss G.E.K.
  
  1890:  Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  
  1890: Palette Club exhibit, Chicago, Illinois; 3 works done in the Netherlands
  
  1891: New York Society of Artists; The Mother
  
  1892: Society of American Artists
  
  1893:  World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois; Instruction, mural in Woman’s Building; The Mother; Miss G.E.K.; Intermezzo
  
  1895: Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  May 1-October 31, 1897: Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee: Figure of a Girl
  
  1898: New York Water Color Club, New York, New York
  
  1898: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1899: Watercolor exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of Dr. Cornelia De Bey
  
  Fall 1986: Alice Kellogg Tyler, 1866-1900: Private Works, Williams & McCormick, Columbia, Missouri
  
  September 29-December 17, 1989: Paris 1889, American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
  
  February 1-April 15, 1990: Paris 1889, American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  May 5-July 15, 1990: Paris 1889, American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennesse
  
  October 1, 2011-January 15, 2012: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
  
  February 10-March 18, 2012: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Quincy Arts Center, Quincy, Illinois
  
  May 26-September 6, 2012: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois
  
  American Water Color Society, New York, New York
  
  Society of American Artists, New York, New York
• Collections JoAnne W. Bowie
  
  Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Hull House, Chicago, Illinois
  
  M. Christine Schwartz Collection, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Caroline and William Zinsser
• Publications Blaugrund, Annette. Paris 1889, American Artists at the Universal Exposition exhibition catalog, 1989 Blaugrund, Annette with Joanne W. Boie, "Alice D. Kellogg: Letters from Paris, 1887-1889" in the Archives of American Art Journal 28, no. 3 (1988) pages 11-19. Bowie, Joanne Wiemers, “Alice DeWolf Kellogg Tyler,”   Chicago Moderns, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New Fink, Lois Marie. American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons. Pettys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985 Williams, Melissa Pierce. Alice Kellogg Tyler, 1866-1900: Private Works. Columbia, MO: Williams & McCormick. 1986. -----. Alice Kellogg Tyler. Columbia, MO: Williams & McCormick. 1987.
• Memberships Bohemian Art Club, then Palette Club, Chicago, Illinois; founder; 1891, 1892, 1895: President
  
  Chicago Art Association, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Cosmopolitan Art Club
  
  New York Society of Artists, New York, New York [first Chicagoan, first “Westerner”]
  
  New York Watercolor Club, New York, New York
  
  Society of American Artists
  
  Society of Western Artists
• Awards 1880s: 3 month scholarship to Art Institute of Chicago
  
  late 1890s: Yerkes Prize, Chicago Artists Association exhibition
• Archive(s) Alice Kellogg Tyler Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Other Occupation(s) 1881-1887, 1889-?: Art instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1890-?: Art instructor at Hull-House, Chicago, Illinois
  
  illustrated Lydia Avery Coonley’s Singing Verses for Children, London: MacMillan, 1897.
• Website(s) page on M. Christine Schwartz Collection website
• Biography romantic relationship with Arthur B. Davies, until he married in 1892; they shared an affinity for the metaphysical