Description
Oil on canvas painting of a blacksmiths shop by Lancashire artists Stella Platt (1913-2011).
On the reverse of the painting there is a sweet inscription, ‘Old Forge. Known as “Blacksmiths Shop”. To Bob McDade from Stella Platt.’
STELLA PLATT
STELLA PLATT
Period: Mid 20th Century
Price: Sold
Oil on canvas painting of a blacksmiths shop by Lancashire artists Stella Platt (1913-2011).
On the reverse of the painting there is a sweet inscription, ‘Old Forge. Known as “Blacksmiths Shop”. To Bob McDade from Stella Platt.’
STELLA PLATT
Sold
Painting measurements – Height 50cm x Width 60cm
Frame measurements – Height 54cm x Width 65cm x Depth 5cm
Stella Platt was born in Bolton at Deane Clough in 1913. Her family owned five mills in the town, but when the cotton industry collapsed the family lost the business. She studied at Bolton School of Art and later taught at Bolton and Southport Schools of Art, the Harris gallery in Preston, and the Manchester and Salford Art Galleries.
She was a member of Manchester Academy of Fine Art and vice-chairman of the North-west Federation of Art Societies. Her own work was exhibited in London, Paris, Edinburgh and the main provincial galleries.
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery purchased an oil painting by Stella Platt in 1959 called Still Life, showing a blue jug, apples and a cactus plant.
There are other examples of her work in the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.
