Gilbert D. Fletcher Collection
Finding Aid Contents
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Collection Summary
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Administrative Information
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Historical Sketch
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Chronology
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Description of Series
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Container List
Creator: Gilbert D. Fletcher Collection, 1976-1984
Extent: 1 linear ft.
Scope and Content: The Gilbert D. Fletcher Collection spans the years 1977 through 1984. Included are exhibit announcements, invitations and programs, awards, as well as correspondence with Carole Taylor, the university librarian during these years.
Administrative
Information
Preferred Citation: Gilbert D. Fletcher Collection, Will W.
Alexander Library, Dillard University.
Information concerning copyright must be secured in writing from the Director of
the Will W. Alexander Library.
Processed by: Laura Kersting and Kerrie Cotten Williams
Date completed: 2/22/02
As an undergraduate art student at Dillard University in New Orleans, Mr. Fletcher studied design, painting and educational theory. At Pratt Institute in New York, his studies for the Master of Arts degree included painting and ceramics. His commercial art training at the School of Visual Arts in New York ranged from advertising to graphic design and typography.
Mr. Fletcher worked as an assistant art director for a leading advertising agency. During an army stint, he branched out into television production and photography. Aware of the positive impact of early nurturing of creativity, Mr. Fletcher organized art projects for preschool children as a teacher in a daycare center. He was also art editor for R.R. Bowker Compnay in New York. Two of Fletcher’s drawings appear in Magnolia Street, a collection of poems by Tom Dent, published in 1976.
Chronology
1977 Desi Award for Library Journal graphic design
Private showing of Facades and Corners (J. E. Johnson
Arts in New York)
Photo exhibition: Restoration Bedford Stuyvesant Camera
Club (New York)
1978 Mark Twain at Home: Featured artists include Fletcher
Exhibit at the Work of Art Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
Festival of Art (Brooklyn, NY)
Miriam Francis and Gilbert D. Fletcher Exhibition
(Brooklyn Museum)
1979 Community Gallery Exhibition (Brooklyn Museum)
Hemstead Art Fair (New York)
A Meeting of the Minds Exhibition (Atlanta, GA)
Clinton Hill Artist Exhibition (Brooklyn Museum)
1980 Desi Award for
graphic design in the medium of
photography
1981 Dillard University Art Exhibition (New Orleans, LA)
1983 Art Director of Small Press
1984 Dillard University Art Exhibition (New Orleans, LA)
Description
of Series
Series 1 Folders
1-10 Announcements
Series 2 Folders
11-13
Programs
Series 3 Folders 14-17
Invitations
Series 4 Folders 18-25
Miscellaneous
Container List
Box 1
Series 1: Announcements
f. 1
Inaugural Group Show, May 1978.
f. 2
Gilbert Fletcher Paintings, 1978.
f. 3 Clinton Hill Artists, 1978.
f. 4 Festival of Art, 1978.
f. 5 Hemstead Art Fair, 1979.
f. 6 Clinton Hill Artists, 1979.
f. 7 A Meeting of the Minds, Oct. 1979
f. 8 Dillard University Spring
Arts Festival, 1984.
f. 9 Gilbert Fletcher- Exhibition
of Paintings, n.d.
f. 10 Group Exhibition (AARG), n.d.
Series 2: Programs
f. 11
PACC Presents Tom Noel in Mark Twain at Home, 1978.
f. 12
Miriam B. Francis and Gilbert D. Fletcher (exhibition), 1978.
f. 13
Brooklyn, '79, 1979.
Series 3: Invitations
f.
14 Restoration Bedford Stuyvesant
Camera Club, 1977.
f. 15
Facades and Corners, 1977.
f. 16
"New Orleans: Sunny Side", Exhibition, 1981.
f. 17
A Fine Arts Exhibition, n.d.
Series 4: Miscellaneous
f.
18 Award for Library Journal
Magazine cover, 1977.
f. 19
Award for Library Journal Magazine cover, 1980.
f. 20
Listing: American Painters in Paris, 1975-76.
f. 21
Review: "Fletcher Does Doors", 1978.
f. 22
Correspondence with Carole Taylor, librarian, 1980-83.
f. 23
Magazine: Small Press, Sept.-Oct. 1983.
f. 24
Biographical sketch, n.d.
f. 25
Photograph (mounted), n.d.
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