Occupation: Painter, Instructor Media: Watercolor. Born North Versailles, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1927.
Education Art Inst Pittsburgh, with Edgar A Whitney.
Teaching Positions Guest lectr painting throughout N America, Central America & Europe, 73-.
Business and Professional Positions President, Phillips Studio, Pittsburgh, 57-80.
Commissioned Works Soc Naval Architects & Marine Engineers, 88.
Public Works Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; PPG Found, Pittsburgh; Tweed Art Museum, Duluth, Michigan; Ford Times Collection, Detroit; Taiwan Art Education Inst; Palmer Mus Penn State Univ.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Tweed Art Museum, Univ Minnesota, Duluth, 82, Purdue Univ, 84, LaRoach Coll, Pittsburgh, 91, Atelier Gallery, New York, 93, Chaffee Gallery, Rutland, Vermont, 93, Glennville State Coll, West Virginia, 93, The Spotlight Gallery, Pittsburgh, 98, Virginia Southern Alleghenies Art Museum, Ligonier, 99, Southern Vermont Art Center, 2004; Group exhibs, America Watercolor Soc Ann, Nat Acad, New York, 71-80; National Arts Club, New York, 71-81; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 73; Audubon Artists, National Arts Club, New York, 73-83; Allied Artists, National Arts Club, New York, 73-80; Nat Acad Ann, New York, 77; Midwest Watercolor Soc Ann, Rawr-West Mus, Manitowac, Wisconsin, 79-83; and many others.
Bibliography Webb on Watercolor (film/video); Using your Head, Heart and Hand (film/DVD); Frank Webb's Painting by Design (film/DVD); Frank Webb's Expression in Painting (film/DVD).
Publications Author, Watercolor Energies, 83, North Light Publ; Webb on Watercolor, 90; Strengthen Your Paintings with Dynamic Composition, 94.
Honors and Awards Sizek Award, Butler Midyear Ann, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 73; Bronze Medal of Hon, America Watercolor Soc, 76; Walser Greathouse Medal, America Watercolor Soc, 89; Gold Medal of Hon, Audubon Artists, 95; Philadelphia Watercolor Soc Medal for Achievement in the Arts.
