Abstract, American Avant-Garde

Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984) American, American/Canadian

Medium: Gouache on paper
Image Size: 11” x 15”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $2800

Biography/Statement

Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I.  However, by 1924 he had established New York City as his home.  While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw’s  play, Man and Superman and for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

In 1939, while in the process of creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Director Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett’s work.  By 1940 he had become the new museum’s chief lecturer.

By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints.  He later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and showed his work in various Woodstock exhibits.

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Abstract, American Avant-Garde

Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984) American, American/Canadian

Medium: Gouache on paper
Image Size: 6” x 9”
Frame Size: 13” x 16”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $1800

Biography/Statement

Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I.  However, by 1924 he had established New York City as his home.  While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw’s  play, Man and Superman and for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

In 1939, while in the process of creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Director Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett’s work.  By 1940 he had become the new museum’s chief lecturer.

By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints.  He later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and showed his work in various Woodstock exhibits.

Artist Profile Page: Scarlett, Rolph / Categories: Abstract, American Avant-Garde

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American Avant-Garde

Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984) American, American/Canadian

Woodstock, NY

Medium: Gouache on paper
Image Size: 8” x 10”
Frame Size: 14” x 16”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $2000

Biography/Statement

Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I.  However, by 1924 he had established New York City as his home.  While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw’s  play, Man and Superman and for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

In 1939, while in the process of creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Director Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett’s work.  By 1940 he had become the new museum’s chief lecturer.

By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints.  He later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and showed his work in various Woodstock exhibits.

Artist Profile Page: Scarlett, Rolph / Categories: American Avant-Garde

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