Platt Fine Art is dedicated to offering their clients works by major American artists at reasonable prices and in the finest condition possible. An equally important part of our mission is to uncover works by lesser known artists from the 1930s and 1940s who fell into obscurity but whose talent warrants the attention of our collectors.
Platt Fine Art continues to expand the number of artist's estates it represents. Of particular significance for the gallery is the estate of the Bauhaus trained painter and printmaker, Werner Drewes (1899-1985). Our 2005 gallery exhibition, Werner Drewes: Paintings, Woodcuts & Collages, was the first major retrospective of his work in over a decade.
Additionally, Platt Fine Art handles the estates of many aritsts from the 1930s and 1940s who were influenced by the famed Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). This includes the work of painter and master lithographer Roger Medearis (1920-2001); the Kansas Regionalist William Dickerson (1904-1972); and Indiana-born Edwin Fulwider (1913-2003), a painter and printmaker of industrial and railroad scenes. Our 2006 gallery show, held in collaboration with Fulwider's estate, was the first survey of the aritist's work since his death in 2003.
Other estates of note currently represented by Platt Fine Art include the Adirondack Modernist Harold Weston (1894-1972); the New York City wood engraver Bernard Brussel-Smith (1914-1989); the Chicago printmaker Letterio Calapai (1902-1993); Philadelphia Social Realist painter and printmaker Harry Brodsky (1908-1997); and Washington, D.C. artist Prentiss Taylor (1907-1991), whose collaboration on a number publications with the famed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes put him on the historical map for good.
