William Keyser Manly Jr. was born in 1932 in Baltimore Maryland, the son of William Keyser Manly and Georgiana Hawkins. He attended Eaglebrook, McDonough, and St. Paul’s Schools, attended Columbia University, and served in the US Army in Korea and Japan. William worked with Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta to support the Farm Workers’ Union in California and New York City.
Bill’s art studies included The art Students’ League and the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in NYC, Albert Handell’s Sudio in Woodstock, NY, Spanish tinwork with Verne Lucero in Hernandez, New Mexico, and Russian iconography in earth pigments and egg tempera with Vladislov Andrejef in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bill and Laurel Porterfield Manly spent 16 years painting in New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and New Mexico. His work studies aeroplanes, motorcycles, trains, still life, flowers, birds, sea scapes, landscapes, invented landscapes, astronomy, abstract compositions, and portraits. He died November 6, 2004, in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.