Sep 22, 2016 - Sale 2422

Sale 2422 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
FRANK MORLEY FLETCHER
California 1--Salinas River.

Color woodcut on Japan paper, 1932. 322x430 mm; 12 3/4x17 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 35/100 in pencil, lower margin.

English-born Fletcher (1866-1950) trained as a painter-printmaker in London, and taught art in London, Reading and Edinburgh in the early 1900s, before moving to California in 1924 to become director of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts (1924-30). He later lived in Los Angeles and Ojai.