Frank Morley Fletcher was a British painter and printmaker known primarily for his role in introducing Japanese colored woodcut printing as an important genre in Western art.

Fletcher was educated at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 followed by work at St John's Wood Art School and in the studio of Hubert Vos

Hubert Vos

Hubert Vos was a Dutch painter who was born in Maastricht on February 15, 1855. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and with Fernand Cormon in Paris. He exhibited widely in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dresden and Munich. From 1885 to 1892, he worked in England, where...

. He continued art studies in Paris at the atelier of Fernand Cormon

Fernand Cormon

Fernand Cormon was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France....

 in 1888. There his exposure to the Japanese color woodblock print led to a career in teaching and development of the subject. A student of his was fellow woodblock print exponent, Allen W. Seaby.

He taught in London and Reading schools, and from 1907-23 was director of the Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh College of Art is an art school in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing tertiary education in art and design disciplines for over two thousand students....

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He became school director of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts

Santa Barbara School of the Arts

Santa Barbara School of the Arts was a college of art founded in Santa Barbara, California by artist Fernand Lungren in 1920. It closed in 1933....

 in 1924. Fletcher resigned as director in the spring of 1930 and eventually moved to Los Angeles where he continued to teach, paint, and exhibit.

In the late 1930s his eyesight began to fail and his output became more sporadic. He moved to Ojai in the early 1940s where he died on November 2, 1950.

He was a brother of British physiologist Walter Morley Fletcher

Walter Morley Fletcher

Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, KBE FRS was a British physiologist and administrator. Fletcher graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and was most significant in his administration of the Medical Research Council during the interwar years...

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