[1] Franklin helped plan the Canadian Photography Institute, which has promised gifts from the Archive of Modern Conflict and major funding from Bank of Nova Scotia.
TEDxCLE Talk On October 30, 2012, he presided over the public opening of the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cleveland Museum of Art Atrium opening After a three-year tenure, Franklin abruptly resigned on October 21, 2013, citing personal reasons and a need "to do more research and writing".
[6] Soon thereafter, the Cleveland Scene revealed that Franklin (married with two children) had been in a romantic relationship with an employee of the museum.
Police have also discovered that a major transfer of data had been done from the woman's phone shortly after she was found dead.
[12][13] 1991–94, the Slade and Shuffrey Fellow in Italian Renaissance Art, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.
Gergely Papp 1938-1963, Ecsegfalva, Hungary, Bone Idle Books, 2018 Polidoro da Caravaggio, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2018.
Contributing author to Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence, Gretchen A. Hirschauer and Dennis Geronimus, eds., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2015.
Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by David Franklin and C. Griffith Mann, Scala Publishing, 2012.
[14] Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada, edited by David Franklin, Yale University Press.
"Rosso Fiorentino, Marcillat and Vasari in Arezzo: the Reinvention of the Image of the Immaculate Conception", in La Disputa sull'Immacolata Concezione nella Toscana del Cinquecento, ed.
[17] 1988–1990, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship 1985–1988, Commonwealth Scholarship[18]