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.”
