Irene Thompson Fletcher was born in Hooper, Utah in 1900. She was the wife of Calvin Fletcher, chair of the art department at Utah State College, and an accomplished modern artist. She died in Logan, Utah in 1969.

She was Calvin Fletcher's student at Utah State College from 1925 to 1926 where he, Sandzen, and Nordfeldt influenced her painting style. The Fletchers and seven other artists were members of the Modern Art Movement of Utah, an informal organization that Don Goodall, organized in 1941.

Fletcher painted mural for the Logan Public Library and for the Tenth Ward chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She had a one-woman show at the Logan Public Library in 1940. She received the purchase prize at the Utah Institute of Fine Arts Exhibition of 1947. Irene Fletcher's work was exhibited at the Utah State Fair and at the Utah Institute of Fine Arts. Woman in a Red Sweater (1936), Laid Off (1938), and The Mask (1940) are examples of her work.

Biographical information on this page was adapted from the Springville Museum of Art.