Franklin Kaye

Franklin J. Kaye, III, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, PMP
Edgewater, Maryland

Mr. Kaye has been a practicing sketch artist and licensed architect for the past 40 years. In his youth, he studied art under his father, Franklin J. Kaye, Jr., in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he joined his father in collaborating with his father's artist colleagues and the local artists' community, including membership in the Wyoming Valley Art League. During high school and college, Mr. Kaye apprenticed in his father's art galleries and picture framing businesses in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia. There, he developed a deep appreciation for the art world and artists' work, assisting in the galleries and traveling with his father on buying trips throughout the United States and Europe.

After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and receiving awards such as being a finalist in the Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle Foreign Studies Competition, Mr. Kaye continued his graduate studies, which included studio and field studies in Rome, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain. During this time, he developed extensive sketchbooks of the built environment. Throughout his career as an architect, Mr. Kaye has created numerous sketches of the built environment, including urban scenes in Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, as well as during his travels around the world.

Currently residing in Edgewater, Maryland, Mr. Kaye continues to engage in urban sketching and has returned to creating more watercolor paintings based on his sketchbooks and travels.