Background
B. Colin Greenly was born on January 21, 1928 in London, United Kingdom.
B. Colin Greenly was born on January 21, 1928 in London, United Kingdom.
B. Colin Greenly received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard in 1948, and studied at both Columbia University School of Painting and Sculpture in New York City from 1951 to 1953 and the American University Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1956.
A self-employed photographer, B. Colin Greenly taught art at State University of New York in New York City (1974-1975). An artist-in-residence at Finch College Museum in New York City (1974), at Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, New York, and at Everson Museum School of Art (1972), he also was a Dana Professor of Fine Arts at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York (1972-1973).
Besides his photography, B. Colin Greenly created an architectural design for the restoration and adaptation of the 1878 Hulse Basilican Plan Bank Bam at Campbell Hall in New York, and works in sculpture, drawings, paintings and woodcuts.