Jack Fletcher

May 10, 2010 11:42 AM

I am looking for information about an artist named Jack Fletcher. He was a pop artist working in aluminum in the 70's and 80's in Seattle. He died in approximately 1990.
posted by allelopath to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Best answer: There's a June 9th Seattle Post-Intelligencer article where James Howell quotes Fletcher: "(The late Seattle sculptor) Jack Fletcher used to say, there are three stages to making art: conception, creation and marketing"

There's a mention in the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin in (not making this up) Walla Walla, Washington on Sunday, June 10, 1973: "Everett - The Seventh annual Everett Waterfront Art Show will be held July 14 and 15 at the Fourteenth Street Dock. Preview night, July 13, will be a special occasion with exotic foods being served and reservations must be made. Categories are painting: sculpture: crafts: drawings: photographs in professional, non-professional and junior, and entrants are limited to three entries per category. Registration is june 27 from 12 noon to 7pm and June 30 from 10 a.m. to 5 pm at the Creative Arts Gallery, 3316 Colby. Jurors are Val Wellman, associate professor of art at the University of Washington, painting and drawing; Patrick Mahr, who heads secondary art education in the Everett school district: Jack Fletcher nationally-known sculptor, teacher, lecturer and writer." Another announcement for this event 2 days later noted that he was based in Bellevue.
posted by cashman at 2:00 PM on May 14, 2010 [1 favorite]

There's a reference to Jack Fletcher (died 1990) in this book. You can probably find it in a library nearby (use the tools at the link to find it at a library near you.)
posted by cashman at 2:40 PM on May 14, 2010 [1 favorite]

There's an obit in Variety: 338.n9 (March 7, 1990): p.p70(1).
posted by cashman at 4:39 PM on May 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks for your replies
posted by allelopath at 12:52 AM on May 23, 2010

Jack Fletcher was my grandfather he passed away before I was born he was based out of Bellevue jus a few blocks from Bellevue square our family stil has many of his pieces and my grandmother sold the pieces that weren't kept in an art show in seattle years ago. I feel he was extremly talented i wish more could have known his work
posted by Krysie1313 at 8:56 PM on June 15, 2010