Alan Fletcher with Euphonium
Artist: Schotz, Benno, RSA · 1891-1984
The work depicts the Scottish artist Alan Robert Tregoning Williams Fletcher (1930-58). Born in the Anderston district of Glasgow on 1930-03-27, Fletcher enrolled as a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1951, after his National Service, where he was taught by Schotz, and later became his assistant; helping in the construction of the Cross for St Peter’s RC Church in Glenrothes. A co-founder of The Glasgow Group alongside James Spence, Anda Paterson, and James Morrison RSA (1932-2020) Fletcher died after falling from a wall at the Casa Della Studente, the 5-storey student residence block of nearby Milan Polytechnic, on 62 Viale Romagna in Milan, into the building’s courtyard, on 1958-08-01, whilst on a John Keppie Travelling Scholarship. Schotz writing of Fletcher in the catalogue of his Memorial Exhibition in 1959 wrote; “His background and emotional conflicts warred with set hours of study and prescribed subjects. So it took him six years to complete the standard course. He obtained his Diploma in Sculpture in 1957.”
The present work was included in the Christies Benno Schotz Studio Sale in Glasgow 1997-09-24, lot 109, est £1000-1500, unsold.
The Benno Schotz Studio Gift archive includes b&w photographs of this piece as well as one of the sculptor at work on the head.
© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
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Date 1957 Accession 2020.0192 Materials Support terracotta
Plinth woodDimensions Support
105.5cm x 38.5cm
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4cm x 48.5cm x 56.3cm -
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