Eleanor Platt

Eleanor Platt (1910 – August 30, 1974) was an American sculptor.

A native of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, Platt was a pupil of Arthur Lee.[1] She studied from 1929 to 1933 at the Art Students League of New York. In 1940 she received the Chaloner Prize; in 1944 she was granted $1,000 from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1945 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Platt was noted for her busts of notable individuals; among her subjects were Louis D. Brandeis, Learned Hand, Albert Einstein, and Earl Warren.[2] Platt was twice married; she divorced her first husband, Charles Flavin, and her second husband, Victor Russo, died in 1957.[3]

Platt was found dead in her studio at the Park Plaza Hotel on West 77th Street in New York City on August 30, 1974. Her death was initially ascribed to heart failure,[4] but it was later determined that she had been suffocated to death and raped by Calvin Jackson, a serial killer who had murdered eight other women, most in the Park Plaza where he also lived.[5] She was survived by her mother, a sister, and a brother.[3]

References
  1. Albert TenEyck Gardner (1965). American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 181–. GGKEY:6UZDFFUW001.
  2. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  3. Special To The New York Times (7 September 1974). "ELEANOR PLATT DIES; SCULPTOR WAS 64". Retrieved 20 June 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. Jay Robert Nash (10 July 1992). World Encyclopedia of 20th Century Murder. M. Evans. pp. 306–. ISBN 978-1-59077-532-5.
  5. "Doom service at Upper West Side flophouse". Retrieved 11 February 2017.


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