Anthony Dyson Hon RE

Born 1931

Honorary RE 1994

Elected ARE 2003, RE 2005

Honorary RE 2022

Anthony sadly passed away in January 2023

Anthony Dyson studied at Leeds College of Art and undertook doctoral research in the history of printmaking at London’s Courtauld Institute. 

His prints are in private and public collections in Britain and abroad, including: the British Museum, London; the Science Museum, London: the Guildhall Library, London; University of London Institute of Education; Birkbeck College; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Sagene Laererskole, Oslo; the Leonardo Sciascia Print Foundation, Italy; and the Harvard Theatre Collection, U.S.A.

He taught Art and History of Art in schools and colleges of education, ultimately as a Senior Lecturer in the University of London Institute of Education. In this connection his writing has been published widely in the International Journal of Art and Design Education and in such books as Teaching the Humanities (ed. Gordon), Woburn, 1991. His writing on printmaking has been published extensively in: Print Quarterly; Printmaking Today; and the Journal of the Printing Historical Society. His major study, Pictures to Print, Farrand Press, 1984, is in the libraries of universities and museums in Britain and abroad. His monograph Passion & Paradox, on the artist Stanislaw Frenkiel, was published by him at the Black Star Press in 2001 and his most recent full-length work is the editing of Printmakers' Secrets, A&C Black, 2009.

In 1987 he left full-time teaching to establish his Black Star Press. Here, as well as making his own prints, he worked for fifteen years as a master printer, producing editions of the work of other artists (including portfolios of the prints of Robin Tanner, Edgar Holloway, Paul Drury, Harry Eccleston and Stanislaw Frenkiel) and printing historic engraved plates for establishments such as the Tate Gallery and Harvard University, the print publishers Frost & Reed (Bristol) and Rosenstiel's (Chelsea). From 1990 to 2000 he published the Calendarium Londinense for which he designed, made and printed the illustrative etchings.

We are sorry that we are no longer able to take enquiries for sales of Anthony's work.