Alethea Hill Platt

[2] The New York Times found a "quality of serenity, even a kind of nobility" in her work,[3] and American Art News placed her "in the ranks of America's leading women painters.

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 Delécluse academy in Paris.

Her circle of artist friends and neighbors included Charlotte B. Coman, Fanny Griswold Ely, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, Clara Weaver Parrish, Helen Watson Phelps, Emily Maria Scott, C. Helen Simpson, Mary Harvey Tannahill, and Arabella Locke Wyant, the widow of Alexander Helwig Wyant.

[12] She summered in England (particularly Devonshire), France (frequently Brittany), Germany, and the Netherlands as well as in the Adirondacks, Maine, Woodstock, N.Y., the Berkshires, and Sharon, Conn.[13][14] Her characteristic subject matters were cottage gardens, villagers in workshops and kitchens, sunlit woods, harbor workers, and rocky seacoasts.

[37] She was also known for achieving “rhythm of line, beauty of color and general charm.”[38] Institutions that own Platt's artworks include the Anderson Public Library in Indiana (An Old World Garden), Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia (Cottage Scene), and Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (Shore Landscape at Dusk, 2002.0183).