Ron Tyler, native Texan and retired Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth will draw on his extensive curatorial knowledge of Southwestern art to speak about his latest book Texas Lithographs: a Century of History in Images – lauded as “quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period.”

Ron Tyler is the retired Director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas (2006-2011). He is former Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-2006) and Director of the Texas State Historical Association and the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University (1986-2004), during which time he was the editor-in-chief of The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols.; 1996 and now online) and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Before moving to Austin, he taught at Austin College in Sherman (1967-1969) and served for eighteen years as Curator of History and Director of Public Programs at the Carter. He was born in Temple, Texas, in 1941 and is a graduate of Rogers High School (1960), Temple College (A.A., 1962), Abilene Christian College (B.S., 1964) and Texas Christian University (M.A., 1966; Ph.D. 1968). He has published a number of works in the areas of American, Western American, Texas, and Mexican art and history.