LEONARD FLETTRICH
(American | New Orleans, 1916-1970) 

A native New Orleanian, Leonard Flettrich studied at the Art Students League in New York and under Paul Ninas at the Arts & Crafts Club in the French Quarter.  He later taught art at the Arts & Crafts Club and drawing at the Tulane University School of Architecture.  Beginning in 1947, he taught at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art.  In December 1947, he had an important solo exhibition at the Delgado Museum of Art (now NOMA) and later NOMA staged a retrospective exhibition of his work in 1974.  He exhibited with the Glade Gallery and Downtown Gallery in New Orleans.

Grand Central Moderns staged his first solo exhibition in New York, October 3-22, 1955.  Flettrich’s paintings are in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, among others. 

Abstract Composition, c. 1955,

oil on canvas, signed lower right, 39 x 15 in.

Provenance: Boston Art Club, Boston, MA.