A native New-Yorker, Fran studied advertising and art history at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, where her art career was in magazine and newspaper publishing.  She and her husband Bill moved to the Cape in 1975, where they both became founding Charter Members of The Guild of Harwich Artists.  Watercolor is Fran’s medium of choice (she also paints in oils), and she uses the English tradition of layered washes.  Her style is representational, using observed facts but creating fictions to reveal truth.  Primarily a landscape and waterfront painter, Fran also enjoys painting architectural subjects.  She finds old New England houses with their big chimneys, varied rooflines, and multiple additions especially interesting, with their interiors being most challenging in terms of light and perspective.  

    Fran has served in every elected position in the Guild, and is a member of Chatham’s Creative Arts Center.  Her interest in the history of costume led her to the Harwich Historical Society where she serves on the executive board.  She is represented on Cape by The Art Gallery, and in many private and corporate collections in Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Taiwan, the Netherlands and the US.  She works in her Fo’cas’le House Gallery and Studio.

www.frangeberth.com

fgeberth@capecod.net

508-432-5907

Watercolor 12 x 16 ~ $125

Watercolor 16 x 20 ~ $295

Oil 18 x 24 $1,000