James G. Dyett

James G. Dyett was president of the family-owned Hard Manufacturing Company, which designed and made hospital furniture. He took up art after 25 years in industry. The Burchfield Art Center presented a small solo exhibition of his humorous wire sculptures and works on paper in 1991 called "The Cutting Edge of Cryptograms."  He was a co-founder of the Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Buffalo and served as chairman. He claimed his art was influenced "by his psychiatrist, by living across the street from Martha Visser't Hooft, and by music."