[1] So even though he had started in drawing and painting at the Royal Academy, he saw (and others recognized) that his true gifts were modeling and sculpting.

The museum sold this sculpture, titled "Life Drift", through Christie's East, New York, October 15, 1986, sale number 6215, lot 47.

The commissioned piece, which Dreyer completed on June 15, 1912, and titled The Message, was on a base representing a ship on the ocean.

[7][8] Dreyer sculpted a bust of Frank Marvin, founder and dean of the engineering school at the University of Kansas in 1914.

[10] In 1915 Dreyer created a bust of lumber magnate John Barber White, which is displayed in the main branch of the Kansas City Library, Missouri Valley Special Collections.

[11] Also in 1915 Dreyer made a bust of John Priest Greene, former president of William Jewell College.

[13] Although the Haff bust was completed in 1916, it went into storage until former Parks Director Frank Vaydik discovered the sculpture and had it installed in its present location in 1967.

In 1919 Dreyer was commissioned by the 1919 class of William Jewell College to create a bronze memorial tablet in honor of 16 students who died in World War I.

[18] In 1920 Dreyer sculpted two diminutive bakers for the Rushton Baking Company on Southwest Boulevard in Rosedale, a suburb of Kansas City.

[14] In 1922 Dreyer was commissioned by the Kansas City Park Board to add a lion to a fountain for the Fitzsimons Memorial at 12th and The Paseo.

Dreyer was commissioned by the Order of DeMolay in 1925 to design and execute a Medal of Heroism, "for heroic endeavor".

[19][20] Two of Dreyer's most visible sculptures are the pair of lionesses in front of the Kansas City Life Insurance building, located at 3520 Broadway.

[24] In 1931 Dreyer sculpted some marble figures for the Rose Hill Cemetery Mausoleum,[3] and in 1932 he installed a sculpture of the Goddess of Dawn for the new Hotel Phillips.

Inscribed in the circumference of the pedestal is a quote from Horace, Satires 2.6: "NO MORE I ASK, O SON OF MAIA, BUT THAT YOU MAKE THESE GIFTS MY OWN FOR LIFE".

Mercury is in the lobby of the main Kansas City Life Insurance building, surrounded by the murals of fellow Art Deco muralist Daniel MacMorris.

In 1935 Dreyer was commissioned to create a medal for the Golden Jubilee of Bishop Thomas F. Lillis of Kansas City.

[26] The United Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned Dreyer in 1939 to create a bust of Major General Sterling Price.