Joel L. Fletcher

Joel L. Fletcher, a native of Lafayette, Louisiana, was educated at Tulane and Stanford. He served as a gunnery officer in the U. S. Navy, directed a language school in Florence, Italy, and worked in France and England in the field of educational exchange for the Council on International Educational Exchange and the City University of New York. He has been a dealer in fine art for the past thirty-five years, has written widely on art, and has curated a number of museum exhibitions. He currently resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he is a partner in Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art, specializing in nineteenth and early twentieth century American and European fine art.