Elsa Tyler b. 1910

Also known as Elsa Linton Tyler
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
Art and craft teacher at Methodist Ladies' College, Kew. Calligrapher for monograph on sculptor Eileen McGrath by G. Rayner Hoff.
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Elsa Linton Tyler was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1910, the second daughter of Australians Harold Cecil Tyler and Mildred Isabel _née_ Pringle, who were living in Devonport on Auckland’s north shorelived in the suburbs of Ponsonby and Devonport while Elsa’s father, an executive with the Singer Sewing Machine’s Australasian branch, was working in the company’s New Zealand office. Elsa Tyler was also a cousin, by marriage, of designer and architect Frederick 'Deric' Deane. ¶

The Tyler family returned to Australia in 1912 and settled in Sydney, where Elsa Tyler later attended East Sydney Technical College. While there, she contributed hand lettering to a monograph on _The work of Eileen McGrath_, edited by G. Rayner Hoff. ¶

Following the sudden death of her father during a business trip to Adelaide in 1935, Elsa and her mother moved to Hartwell, in Melbourne, where Elsa’s older sister, Dorothy McCutcheon, was living. Elsa began working at the Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew, where she taught art and craft and helped to organise the school’s annual students’ exhibition. ¶

In 1949 Tyler left Melbourne for England, where she undertook courses in craft teaching; specialising in fabric printing; and bookbinding at London’s Central School of Art, as well as undertaking a tour of Europe’s art museums. ¶