About Franklin Galambos

Franklin Samuel Galambos’ early years were spent in Sprint Mount and Collegeville, PA. He attended Shenandoah Valley Academy, New Market VA, and graduated from Blue Mountain Academy, Hamburg, PA in 1962. He worked as a commercial artist in Philadelphia until 1967 when he was drafted into the army as a conscientious objector and was assigned to  Fort Bragg, NC, then to Long Binh, Vietnam as a graphic illustrator where he was primarily involved with U.S. Army aviation projects. He was awarded the Army Commendation medal by Commanding General Creighton W. Abrams. He returned home in the fall of 1969 and resumed his career in commercial art, but in 1972 decided to follow his heart's calling as a fine arts artist creating silkscreen prints, etchings, and engravings, and pen and ink drawings. He moved to Berks County in 1978 and fell in love with the countryside producing many images of his beloved Fry Rd. Although time has brought many changes to the Oley Valley he felt that his work, a record of our disappearing landscapes, would be his legacy.