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Born in Ontario, Canada, Rolph Scarlett left home at age eighteen for New York City, making that city his home for long periods during his lifetime. While beginning his career as an abstract artist, Scarlett designed sets for George Bernard Shaw’s play Man and Superman, as well as designing modern furniture and creating several pavilions at the 1939 World’s Fair and stage sets for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
Scarlett was the first North American artist asked to exhibit work beside that of Kandinsky, Klee and Bauer at Solomon Guggenheim’s new Museum of Non-Objective Art in 1940. During his long association with the museum, its founders remained very supportive of Scarlett, appointing him as chief lecturer, and eventually acquiring nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints.
An important painter and printmaker during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 40s, Scarlett’s style has been described as “…alive as to color and form, with challenging and stimulating rhythms…emotional and…alive with mysticism and inner order.” His works are in the permanent collections of several major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian and the Guggenheim.
- Creator:Rolph Scarlett (1891-1984, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 5.88 in (14.94 cm)Width: 4.38 in (11.13 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Wiscasset, ME
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7525909622
Rolph Scarlett
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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