Feb 28, 2024
William Keller PhD with remarks by Dan THompson
William Keller (son of Deane Keller Sr. and brother of the late Deane G. Keller (former NYAA faculty)) is an historian of architecture with an interest in cultural landscapes, borderlands, and human geography. Keller graduated from Yale and concentrated on Northern Renaissance art at Columbia University, earning his PhD in art history at the University of Delaware. Keller was on staff at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale; Maryland Center for History and Culture and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; George Washington University, Washington D.C.; and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he served as Fine Arts Librarian. He was principal investigator on several privately- and federally-funded bibliographic control and digital projects in support of public access to special library collections and archives.
“I consider the performance of Deane G. Keller, late instructor at the Academy, as inspired by the life and teaching of his father, portrait and mural painter Deane Keller Sr., student of George Bridgman. Critique, discussion, and argument informed the son’s artistic production as he made his way in New Haven, Florence, Indianapolis, Lyme, New York City, and the Mediterranean - learning, resisting, and discovering - leaving us with challenging and rewarding problematics in his own work.”
Dan Thompson has exhibited in public and private collections throughout the world, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Arts Club, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Forbes Galleries, the Dahesh Museum of Art, Museo MEAM de Barcelona, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Shanghai Art Museum and Beijing’s World Art Museum. He has won numerous awards, ranging from the Grand Prize, American Society of Portrait Artists; First Prize in Figure Drawing at the Salmagundi Club; as well as two Bernstein awards from the Corcoran School of Art, and being designated a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. Thompson co-founded two art schools in New York City, and has taught master classes and workshops internationally and nationally for more than twenty years. He has held long-term teaching appointments at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design, Parsons the New School for Design and Studio Incamminati. Since 2001, he has served on the faculty of the New York Academy of Art. He currently serves as Faculty Chair of the Certificate of Fine Arts program.
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