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Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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
Girl with a Flower
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on Paper From the Estate of Samuel Esses and by descent Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarl...
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1940s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache

Portrait of a Young Man
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache Estate of Samuel Esses Beautifully framed Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more tha...
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1930s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled (Lucifer and His Chariot)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Mixed Media on Paper Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the arti...
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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on sketchbook cover Estate of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than on...
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1950s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled, Surrealist Landscape
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on artist board Provenance: Estate of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett mor...
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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled, Woman
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache and watercolor on paper Estate of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years. Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting...
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1940s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Woman with Blue Eyes
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Goauche Provenance: Estate of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years. Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting...
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1940s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper Estate s tamped Provenance: Estate of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years. Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting...
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1920s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Untitled Surrealist
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on artist board Provenance: Collection of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett...
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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled, Two-Headed Woman
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a ca...
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1930s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Seated Woman
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a ca...
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1930s Cubist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel

The Dance
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Rolph Scarlett painted and exhibited nationally over a multi decade career. Paintings by Rolph Scarlett were exhibited at the Museum of Art, at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and the University of Guelph. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum owns over sixty of Scarlett's oils, watercolors, and drawings. The Dance, is a mixed media gouache on paper, signed, c.1950. A bright, modernist depiction of musicians and dancers...
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1950s Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

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Previously Available Items
Indian Space Abstraction (Head)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper Estate of Sam Esses Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved t...
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1950s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled, Cubist Still LIfe
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