Education
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, 1972
American University, MFA, 1982
Teaching
American University, 1984-1987
Washington Studio School, 1984-1987
Washington Studio School, 1999-2012
Honors
Milton and Sally Avery Fellow, MacDowell Colony, 1994
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1982
Graduate Honor Awards in Painting, American University, 1980-1982
Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 1980
Fellowship, MacDowell Colony: 1976, 1977, 1979
European Honors Student, Rome, 1971-1972
Guest Speaker & Juror
Art League of Alexandria (juror), 2018
Washington & Lee University (guest speaker), 2000
George Washington University (juror), 1999
Washington & Jefferson College (guest speaker & juror), 1999
Art League of Alexandria (juror), 1999
Rhode Island School of Design, Rome (guest speaker), 1998
American University (guest speaker), 1994
D.C Commission on the Arts (juror), 1994
Georgetown University (juror), 1991
Marymount College, Tarrytown (guest speaker), 1989
Art League of Alexandria (juror), 1987
George Washington University (guest speaker), 1986
Permanent Collections
Williams School of Business, Washington & Lee University
Elder Collection, Georgetown University
Watkins Collection, American University
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Artery Organization, Bethesda
West Collection of Art and Law, St. Paul
DC Commission on Arts and Humanities
National Institutes of Health
Solo Shows
Landscapes, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington (2020)
Carlton Fletcher, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington (2018)
Continuity: Paintings and Prints, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2013)
The Atelier, 2002-2008, Washington Studio School (2010)
New Paintings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2010)
In and Out of the Studio: Landscape, Figure, and Still Life Paintings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2007)
Satyrs & Nymphs: New Monotypes, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2005)
A Retrospective of Drawings and Paintings, College of Southern Maryland (2002)
Panorama II: Landscapes by Carlton Fletcher, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2001)
Figure Drawings, Washington & Lee University (2000)
Panorama, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1998)
Arcadia, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1996)
In the Waves, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1994)
Landscapes, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1991)
Paintings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1989)
Carlton Fletcher: Recent Work, Washington Studio School (1986)
Dancers at the Bar, Hull Gallery, Washington (1985)
Paintings by Carlton Fletcher, Hull Gallery, Washington (1984)
Lee Newman & Carlton Fletcher, Hull Gallery, Washington (1983)
Paintings by Carlton Fletcher, Georgetown Art Gallery, Washington (1981)
Paintings by Carlton Fletcher, Georgetown Art Gallery, Washington (1979)
Paintings by Carlton Fletcher, Wolfe Street Gallery, Alexandria (1977)
Group Shows
American Landscapes, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington (2022)
D’Arista Legacy, American University (2018)
Contemporary Still Life Paintings, Washington Studio School (2017)
Washington Art Matters II: Washington Art from the 1940s through the 1980s, American University (2014)
The City Lights: Urban Portraits and Landscapes, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2012)
Landscapes, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (2010)
All in the Family: A Juried Show of American University Alumni, American University (2007)
RISD DC Biennial 2007, The Warehouse, Washington (2007)
20th Anniversary Exhibit, Founding & Current Faculty, Washington Studio School (2006)
Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Area Realists, The Athenaeum, Alexandria (2001)
Intersections: Faculty and Students of the New York and the Washington Studio Schools, Artists’ Museum, Washington (2000)
Ambience and Energy, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey (1999)
Contemporary American Printmaking, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, Virginia (1998)
Washington Studio School Faculty Retrospective, Artist’s Museum, Washington (1997)
National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, New York (1996)
Painting Today, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven (1995)
American Watercolors, Drawings & Prints, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1995)
169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (1994)
Printwork ‘94, National Juried Print Exhibition, Dutchess County Art Association, Poughkeepsie (1994)
American Prints: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1993)
Hero, Fondo Del Sol, Washington (1993)
New American Figure Painting, Clemson University; Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco (1992)
Prints: Washington, Corcoran Gallery of Art (1992)
Washington Genre Paintings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1991)
Art and the Law (1991): Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Cedar Rapids Art Museum; Minnesota Museum of Art; Marquette University Museum of Art
Lennart Anderson Selects, First Street Gallery, New York (1990)
The Human Figure in New Painting & Sculpture, New York Academy of Art (1990)
Memento Mori, Fondo del Sol, Washington (1990)
Approaching the Figure, Georgetown University (1989)
Black & White, Reynolds Minor Gallery, Richmond (1989)
Prints: Washington, Phillips Collection (1988)
Landscape/Cityscape, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington (1988)
Selected Works from the Watkins Collection, American University (1987)
Washington Studio School Faculty, College of William and Mary (1987)
Self-portraits, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington (1985)
Prints by Painters, Emerson Gallery, McLean, Virginia (1982)
Friends of the Corcoran: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art (1981)
Realism and Representation, Arlington Art Center (1980)
Contemporary Still Life, Art Association of Newport, Rhode Island (1979)
Ten Painters at City Hall, Providence, Rhode Island (1977)
Catalogs
Still Happenings: Contemporary Still Life Paintings, VisArts, Rockville MD, 2018
D’Arista Legacy, American University, 2018
169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1994
New American Figure Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, 1992
Washington Genre Paintings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington DC, 1991
West Art and the Law, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1991
The Figure in New Painting & Sculpture, New York Academy of Art, 1990
Lennart Anderson Selects, First Street Gallery, New York, 1990
Approaching the Figure, Georgetown University, 1989
Prints: Washington, Phillips Collection, 1988
Friends of the Corcoran: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1981
Reviews
“New Perspectives on Old Masters“, Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, January 6, 2019
“Then and Now: 40 Years”, Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, December 15, 2013
“Carlton Fletcher: In the Waves”, Lee Fleming, Washington Post, May 14, 1994
“Hero at Fondo del Sol”, Lee Fleming, Washington Post, April 10, 1993
“Two Group Shows”, Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 1992
“In the Tradition”, Frank Cebulski, Artweek San Francisco, October 22, 1992
“Washington Printmaking”, Helen Frederick, Washington Review , September, 1992
“Where the Art Is”, Lee Fleming, Washingtonian, May 1992
“Mirrors of Their Souls”, Michael Welzenbach, Washington Post, July 20, 1991
“Artists’ Slices of Life”, Mary McCoy, Washington Post, April 18, 1991
“Problems and Potentials”, Cathleen McCarthy, American Artist, April 1990
“Memento Mori”, Kathy Keler, EyeWash, March 1990
“Mortal of the Story”, Michael Welzenbach, Washington Post, March 31, 1990
“Galleries”, Jane Addams Allen, City Paper, June 8, 1990
“Black & White”, Lydia Douce, The Richmond Review, January 1990
“Black & White”, Roy Proctor, Richmond News Leader, November 11, 1989
“Galleries”, Jo Ann Lewis, Washington Post, September 17, 1988
“Cultural Amnesia”, Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, April 24, 1988
“Fletcher Show at Circle”, Susan Wiegel, Washington Art Reporter, October 1986
“In Brief”, Jo Ann Lewis, Washington Post, October 25, 1986
“Figure Painting at Hull Gallery”, Jo Ann Lewis, Washington Post, October 19, 1985
“Fletcher and Goldberg at Hull”, Jo Ann Lewis, Washington Post, November 24, 1984
“Fletcher and Newman at Hull”, Jo Ann Lewis, Washington Post, November 5, 1983
“Ironies and Memories”, Benjamin Forgey, Washington Star, October 14, 1979