This book recognizes the achievements of master printer Kenneth Tyler who has worked with some of the greatest artists of recent times. The success of the collaboration between Tyler and key artists on the American art scene is manifestly evident in the National Gallery of Australia's collection of editioned original prints, screens, paper works, illustrated books and multiples, along with rare and unique proofs and drawings produced at Tyler's workshops.

The collection documents an extraordinary story of artist and printer collaboration in postwar America. Artists Josef Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella have produced some of their finest works in a workshop atmosphere that celebrates creativity.

For Ken Tyler, collaboration engages both heart and mind; it inspires innovation, response, and reaction, the printer has to be like a chameleon, changing in disposition and approach to suit a particular artist's needs.