Alethea Hill Platt (December 31, 1860 – May 23, 1932) was an artist and educator. Her paintings of rural landscapes in France, England, the Adirondacks and New England were displayed in about 200... Read full biography
Alethea Hill Platt (December 31, 1860 – May 23, 1932) was an artist and educator. Her paintings of rural landscapes in France, England, the Adirondacks and New England were displayed in about 200 exhibitions at venues including the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts... Read full biography
Alethea Hill Platt (December 31, 1860 – May 23, 1932) was an artist and educator. Her paintings of rural landscapes in France, England, the Adirondacks and New England were displayed in about 200 exhibitions at venues including the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The New York Times found a “quality of serenity, even a kind of nobility” in her work, and American Art News placed her “in the ranks of America’s leading women... Read full biography
Alethea Hill Platt (December 31, 1860 – May 23, 1932) was an artist and educator. Her paintings of rural landscapes in France, England, the Adirondacks and New England were displayed in about 200 exhibitions at venues including the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The New York Times found a “quality of serenity, even a kind of nobility” in her work, and American Art News placed her “in the ranks of America’s leading women painters.”. Alethea Platt was one of about nine children of Laura Sherbrook Popham (1826-1905) and Lewis Canfield Platt (1818-1893), a judge in White Plains, N.Y. The family descended from the politician Lewis Morris. Platt trained with the artists Henry... Read full biography
Alethea Hill Platt (December 31, 1860 – May 23, 1932) was an artist and educator. Her paintings of rural landscapes in France, England, the Adirondacks and New England were displayed in about 200 exhibitions at venues including the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The New York Times found a “quality of serenity, even a kind of nobility” in her work, and American Art News placed her “in the ranks of America’s leading women painters.”. Alethea Platt was one of about nine children of Laura Sherbrook Popham (1826-1905) and Lewis Canfield Platt (1818-1893), a judge in White Plains, N.Y. The family descended from the politician Lewis Morris. Platt trained with the artists Henry B. Snell and Ben Foster and took courses at the Art Students League, Columbia University’s Teachers College and the Délécluse acade... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (15)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Artists of the Litchfield Hills (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Austin, Robert Michael
132 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Catalogue of the Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society (Exhibition catalog)