Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher

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Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923–2004) was a British artist and art critic, and is best known for his 1962 book The London Nobody Knows.

Career[edit]

Fletcher was born in Bolton, Lancashire and educated at the University of London and the Slade School of Art and won a scholarship from the British School at Rome.^[1] His drawings appeared in British newspapers such as The Guardian and The Sunday Times, and he worked for The Daily Telegraph, writing and illustrating a column, from 1962 to 1990. He used this medium to promote his drawings and texts about London, focusing on such mundane sights as gas lamps, Edwardian tea rooms, cast-iron lavatories and crumbling terraces. The term 'Geoffrey Fletcher London' is used to refer to his idiosyncratic descriptions.^[2]

His best-known work, The London Nobody Knows, was made into a documentary film in 1967, directed by Norman Cohen and featuring British actor James Mason.^[3]

Bibliography[edit]

• Town's Eye View (1960)
• The London Nobody Knows (1962)
• Popular Art in England (1962)
• City Sights (1963)
• London Overlooked (1964)
• London's River (1965)
• Pearly Kingdom (1965)
• Elements of Sketching (1966)
• Down Among The Meths Men (1966)
• Offbeat in London (1966)
• Offbeat In the City of London (1966)
• London's Pavement Pounders (1967)
• Sketch It In Colour (1967)
• Sketching In Colour (1968)
• Geoffrey Fletcher's London (1968)
• Changing London (1969)
• London After Dark (1969)
• Pocket Guide to Dickens' London (1969)
• London (1970)
• The London Dickens Knew (1970)
• Sketching at Home and Abroad (Pitman Correspondence College) (1970)
• London Souvenirs (1973)
• Paint it Yourself in Oils (1973)
• Italian Impressions (1974)
• Paint it in Watercolour (1974)
• Sketch it in Black and White (1975)
• Figure and Portrait Drawing (1978)
• Portraits of London (1978)
• London At My Feet (1980)
• Beginner's Guide to Painting, Drawing and Sketching (1982)
• London: A Private View (1990)

Personal papers[edit]

Islington Local History Centre holds artworks, sketchbooks and personal papers of Geoffrey Fletcher.^[4]

London Metropolitan Archives (https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma) have sketchbooks and artworks by Geoffrey Fletcher. Some of which can be seen on The London Picture Archive at: https://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/quick-search?q=geoffrey%20fletcher%20&WINID=1587640297184

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• 153 artworks by or after Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher at the Art UK site
• WorldCat - Geoffrey S. Fisher
• Ashtead.org — Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher