Will Dyson - Legacy

Legacy

Dyson was tall and thin and was brought up in a mining district, knew something of the difficulties of labouring men, and no personal success could lessen his championship of the underdog. Whatever he attempted he did well. He was a good public speaker, a writer of excellent prose, a charming conversationalist, and his little known Poems in Memory of a Wife belongs to the regions of true poetry. Dyson took up dry pointing late in life he quickly mastered the possibilities of his medium. His full genius was expressed in his cartoons, he became the sharpist satirist of his day. The largest collection of his work is at National Museum of Australia, Canberra, and he is also represented at the national galleries at Melbourne and Sydney and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.