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ANNA MCCULLOUGH TYLER (1930 - 2009) Hot Flash in the Summertime.
Monotype and crayon pastel on wove paper, circa 2000. 508x406 mm; 20x16 inches, full margins. Signed in blue crayon, lower left.
Provenance: the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
A noted Chicago printmaker and art historian, Anna McCullough Tyler was born in Evanston, IL and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at La Esmeralda Art Center in Mexico City, where Elizabeth Catlett became her mentor. Serving as both a teacher and board member at the South Side Community Art Center, she met fellow artist and future husband Al Tyler at an art exhibit at the center.
Tyler was a founding member of Sapphire & Crystals, an African-American women's art collective in Chicago. Her artwork is in the collections of the DuSable Museum of African American History and the Johnson Publishing Company, both Chicago.
