John Edgar Platt, 1886-1967

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Reference number	1996/8112
Name	John Edgar Platt
AKA	John Platt
Born	1886
Collection	People
Object type	Person
Completeness	56% 56% ?

• Biography

  Attribute	Value
  Biography	John Platt studied at the Royal College of Art and taught at a number of colleges. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1913. He was particularly known for colour woodcuts, with 'The Giant Stride' of 1918 being awarded a gold medal at the International Exhibition organised by the Society of California Printmakers in 1922. During the Second World War he was an official war artist with the Ministry of Transport. His animal prints became increasingly stylized and geometric. His work is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow.
  Education	Royal College of Art, 1905-1910 Leek Schools of Art, 1903-1904
  Employment	Designed posters for the Underground Group, 1922
  Role	Artist,