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Rolph ScarlettUntitled
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£37,422.32
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Signed lower left.
This is a large example of a non-objective painting by Rolph Scarlett. Scarlett was a painter of geometric forms and shapes. His intuitive style helped establish non-objective art as an aesthetic in America, at an early date. This painting has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, cyan-green, yellowish-orange, reds and grays. Scarlett focus was on the forms, shapes and the intuitive rhythms of the geometry, which was often inspired by music, much in the same way Wassily Kandinsky made the spiritual connection with music in the creation of an artwork. Rather than just designing seemingly geometric, objective, visual objects, Scarlett added intuitive rhythms of geometry and the balance of color to his work, often without reference to natural surroundings.
Scarlett was one of the initial members which guided the development of non-objective painting in New York. Solomon Guggenheim sponsored Baroness Hilla Rebay who hatched the early museum later to become the Guggenheim. She brought both Rolph Scarlett and his works into the museum, and the concepts of non-objective painting. The Guggenheim Museum owns sixty paintings by Scarlett. Scarlett met both Kandinsky and Klee who encouraged him toward modernism.
- Creator:Rolph Scarlett (1891-1984, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Saratoga Springs, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU170211071602
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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