Exhibit shows work of late Cornish artist
LEBANON — When he was a high school student, Charles A. Platt knew he was going to be an architect and an artist, so certain that on the eve of a final history test he stayed up all night painting, his daughter Virginia Platt said in an interview. He failed his exam and never graduated high school.
Not that it mattered. Platt did become an architect, like his father and grandfather before him. And he became an artist, though not in quite the same way as he might have envisioned when he stayed up painting all night.
Architects construct things, his daughter Sylvia Platt, who was visiting Cornish from Washington state, said in an interview. “His artwork was all about deconstruction.”