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Rolph Scarlett Mixed Media

American, 1889-1984

Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Scarlett was 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, Scarlett 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 the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. In 1939, while 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 60 of his paintings and monoprints. Scarlett later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than 25 years and showed his work in the Woodstock exhibits.

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Artist: Rolph Scarlett
Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction
Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction

Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction

By Rolph Scarlett

Located in New York, NY

Rolph Scarlett Untitled Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1950 Gouache on paper painting Hand signed on lower right front This is a stunning original, signed vintage 1950...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Mixed Media

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Gouache, Mixed Media, Pencil

Blue Abstract Expressionist
Blue Abstract Expressionist

Blue Abstract Expressionist

By Rolph Scarlett

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Blue Abstract Expressionist Artist signed lower right corner 18.5 H x 23.5 W Rolph Scarlett 1889-1984 Born on June 13, 1889 in Guelph, Canada, and into an artistic family, Rolph Sca...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Mixed Media

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

“Jester”
“Jester”

“Jester”

By Rolph Scarlett

Located in Southampton, NY

Early mixed media painting composed of watercolor, gouache and oil pastel on card stock of a jester by the Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed by the artist lower right ...

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1920s American Modern Rolph Scarlett Mixed Media

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Abstracts
Abstracts

Abstracts

By Rolph Scarlett

Located in Saratoga Springs, NY

Rolph Scarlett (1889 Ontario, Canada - 1984 Woodstock, New York) A set of four Gouache works on paper, offered with or without custom framing based on buyers’ choice of frames 1.) Fl...

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1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Mixed Media

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Bandaid

Rolph ScarlettBandaid, 1952

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H 13.75 in W 16.125 in

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