H.A. Dyer

1872 - 1943
Historical Rhode Island artist

Few Rhode Island artists enjoyed the popularity and patronage that H. Anthony Dyer has in present day and during his lifetime. A descendent of the art inclined Hoppin family, Dyer graduated from Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. No one instructor dominated in Dyer's tutelage, rather it was the school of the "Old-style English method of water color painting" which the artist adopted. He was very adept at using both gouache and transparent washes on grey/earth toned water color sheets. This technique the artist considered paramount to his successfully rendered water colors.

The artist was quite successful in selling his work at annual Providence Art Club and Tilden and Thurber shows. Yearly sojourns to Italy, France and England provided him with popular subject matter for Rhode Islanders unable to travel abroad. Dyer exhibited throughout the country during his lifetime, including such locations as Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Rochester, Syracuse, Fall River, Madison and Providence. Today his works can be found at the Providence Art Club, Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island School of Design and Corcoran Gallery of Art.