Rolph Scarlett Art
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 Biomorphic
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Pastel on paper
Collection of Samuel Esses, then by descent in the family
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, R...
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled Biomorphic
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Estate of Samuel Esses, then by descent in the family
Gouache on paper
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world aro...
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled 6
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Early geometric ala Kandinsky
Oil on paper
Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarle...
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1930s Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil
Autumn
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil and ink on heavy cardboard; from the Samuel Esses Collection
This is a very early and somewhat uncharacteristic work for the artist with its clear debt to Expressionism.
Never ...
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1910s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil, Ink
Modern Composition #2
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on artist board
Collection of Samuel Esses, then by descent in the family
It is possible that this is an early modernist stage design
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious...
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1930s Modern Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil
Modernist Composition #7
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on artist board
Collection of Samuel Esses, then by descent in the family
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around hi...
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1930s Modern Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil
Untitled Biomorphic
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Estate of Samuel Esses, by descent in the family
Gouache on paper
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around h...
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled Biomorphic
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Estate of Samuel Esses, then by descent in the family
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Sc...
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled Biomorphic
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Estate of Samuel Esses, by descent in the family
Gouache on paper4500
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world arou...
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled, Composition with Jagged Forms
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Provenance: Estate of the artist, his estate executor Harriette Tanin, New York collector
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the wo...
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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil
"Untitled Study"
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower right.
Rolph Scarlett (1889 - 1984)
A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and art...
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Watercolor
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 Art
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Acrylic, Gouache
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Pastel and colored pencil on paper
Samuel Esses, estate of Samuel Esses, thence by descent
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the wo...
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1940s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Pastel
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting on paper mid century modern art
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in New York, NY
Rolph Scarlett
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Painting, ca. 1960
Gouache, Ink, Watercolor on Paper . Hand signed, with original Jonas Aarons Gallery label
23 × 18 3/4 inches
Signed ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Watercolor, 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 Art
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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 Art
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Mixed Media
Geometric Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenhei...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil, Canvas
Untitled Geometric
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Early geometric ala Kandinsky
Oil on paper
Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarle...
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1930s Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil
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 Art
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Gouache
Does the Black Intrude
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
Estate of Samuel Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once prove...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Pastel and colored pencil on paper
Samuel Esses, estate of Samuel Esses, thence by descenbt
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the ...
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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Pastel
Untitled, Biomorphic Abstraction
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on board
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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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Art
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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 Art
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Gouache
Untitled
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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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Art
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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 Art
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Mixed Media
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 Art
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Oil Pastel
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...
Category
1940s Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
Materials
Gouache
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 Art
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Gouache
Untitled, Surrealist
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 Art
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Gouache
Untitled
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 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 brings the casual gallery patron to an abrupt stop and forces him to spend five minutes in front of the painting, then the ends of modernism have been served,"
A major proponent of non-objective painting, Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His work, along with that of Kandinsky, Klee, and German artist Rudolph Bauer...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
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 ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstraction)
Ink on textured paper, c. 1958
Signed lower right "Scarlett" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 30 inches
Frame size: 28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches
Note: A rare mid to late 1950s example of the artist's abstract expressionist style.
Provenance: estate of the artist
Private Collection, Hudson River Valley, New York
Rolph Scarlett
B. 1889, GUELPH, ONTARIO; D. 1984, WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK
Born on June 13, 1889 in Guelph, Canada, and into an artistic family, Rolph Scarlett spent his teenage years as an apprentice in his uncle’s jewelry firm and briefly studied at the Art Students League, New York. While working in the jewelry industry, Scarlett found time to paint and design theatrical sets in his free time, including one for the 1928 world premiere of Eugene O’Neill’s drama Lazarus Laughed (1926). In 1923, while on a business trip to Switzerland, Scarlett had met the artist Paul Klee and soon after abandoned his figurative painting style in favor of an abstract language that suggested more universal, cosmic truths.
In 1937, after permanently settling in New York, Scarlett became acquainted with the artist and curator Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952). Rebay provided Scarlett with a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship to paint full-time and obtained several of his paintings for the museum’s collection. From 1940 to 1946, Scarlett served as the museum’s chief lecturer, giving Sunday afternoon talks on art. Through Rebay, Scarlett became acquainted with the nonobjective works of Rudolf Bauer and Vasily Kandinsky and further refined his abstract style. Works from this era such as Yellow Bar (1942) are defined by overlapping geometric planes of bright, primary colors set against mute backgrounds. Scarlett avoided any reference to the outside world and believed that nonobjective painting was an act, in his words, of “pure creation.”
During his lifetime, solo shows of his work were held at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York (1949); Sioux City Art Center, Iowa (1951); and Washburn Gallery...
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Ink
Untitled, Surrealist
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 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 brings the casual gallery patron to an abrupt stop and forces him to spend five minutes in front of the painting, then the ends of modernism have been served,"
A major proponent of non-objective painting, Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His work, along with that of Kandinsky, Klee, and German artist Rudolph Bauer...
Category
1930s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Art
Materials
Gouache
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 Art
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Gouache, Mixed Media, Pencil
Untitled
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 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 brings the casual gallery patron to an abrupt stop and forces him to spend five minutes in front of the painting, then the ends of modernism have been served,"
A major proponent of non-objective painting, Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. His work, along with that of Kandinsky, Klee, and German artist Rudolph Bauer...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
Materials
Gouache
Geometric Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
About the artist:
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario,...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Canvas, Oil
Untitled Non-Objective Abstraction
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on board
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 zeit...
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1940s Modern Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on masonite
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 z...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Ink, Oil
Abstract in Three Dimensions
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
Jo Aarons Gallery Label en verso
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than ...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache 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 artistic...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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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 Art
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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 Art
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Oil Pastel
Abstract and Drip
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
An example of Scarlett’s abstract drip painting, this untitled work has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, rose, and blue and...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Canvas, Oil
“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 Art
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Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache 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 artistic...
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1940s Surrealist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
"Abstraction I, " Rolph Scarlett, gouache, modernism, American art, ca 1940-50
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Wiscasset, ME
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 ...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Geometric Composition
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (Canadian/American, 1889 - 1984)
“Geometric Composition”
Signed lower right, circa late 1930’s early 1940’s
19 ½ x 26 inches
Mixed media, Price on request
About
Rolph...
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1930s Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Mixed Media, Board
“Abstract Figures, 1954”
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media painting composed of acrylic paint, watercolor with traces of aerosol spray paint on vinyl by the Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed by the artist lower right and dated 1954. Condition is very good.
The artwork is housed in a contemporary matt black frame 25.5 by 21.5 inches overall. Provenance: Eric Firestone...
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1950s American Modern Rolph Scarlett Art
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Acrylic, Watercolor
Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and a double sided painting.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil, Board
Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (Canadian/American, 1889 - 1984)
“Abstract”
Signed and dated 1947, lower right
Gouache on paper
Provenance: Private collection, Miami Florida
About
Rolph Scarlett w...
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1940s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Oil, Paper
Untitled Abstraction
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous gouache on paper by Rolph Scarlett c. 1950s. The piece is in perfect condition. Unframed it measures 13.75 high by 16 wide. It is signed "Scarlett" lower right.
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled Abstraction
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Summit, NJ
Gouache on paper by Rolph Scarlett c. 1950s. The piece is signed "Scarlett" on the front in two places. The piece is in perfect condition. Unframed it measures 10.75 x 13.5.
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1950s Abstract Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Abstraction)
Ink on textured paper, c. 1958
Signed lower right: Scarlett
Note: A rare mid to late 1950s example of the artist's abstract expressionist style.
Provenance: Es...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Ink
"Geometric Design"
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower left.
Rolph Scarlett (1889 - 1984)
A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and art...
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Rolph Scarlett Art
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Paper, Gouache
UNTITLED ABSTRACTION
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Portland, ME
Scarlett, Rolph (American, born Canada, 1889-1984). UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Colored pencils on paper, not dated. Signed, lower right. 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (image), 6 x 8 3/4 inches, (s...
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Mid-20th Century Rolph Scarlett Art
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Color Pencil
"Abstraction, " Rolph Scarlett, ca 1947, abstract expressionism, gouache
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Wiscasset, ME
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 ...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Rolph Scarlett Art
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Gouache
“Floating Forms”
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern gouache on paper by the well known Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed and dated in blue pen lower left, 1947. Condition: Good. Framed in thin black matte painted frame with acid free white mat. Not examined out of frame. Overall framed 14.25 by 17 inches.
ROLPH SCARLETT (1889-1984)
Rolph Scarlett was born 1889 in Guelph, Ontario. His long life as an artist began in his teens as a jewelry designer and fabricator. At the age of fourteen he began to design jewelry professionally, a craft which he continued off and on for the rest of his life.
His desire to learn more about art took him to New York in 1908, when American artists were just beginning to experience strong influences from major modern European artists of the day such as Cezanne and Picasso.
Throughout his long career he produced, oil paintings, many works on paper, unique sculptured jewelry, modernist style industrial and furniture designs. Currently there are over 800 of his designs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Design Collection.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California where he became a very successful stage and set designer. In the mid-1930s he met the director of the Museum of Non-objective Art in New York ( Hilla Rebay). He became her close associate and advisor in organizing and running the museum. He was Chief lecturer at the museum (1939 -1946) teaching the new modernism and abstraction to the new generation of artists in the New York art community. Hilla Rebay would introduce him as “Rolph Scarlett, my great find”. So considerable was her enthusiasm for Scarlett, that she and Solomon Guggenheim bought over sixty of his paintings and monotypes for the museum. After Kandinsky and Bauer, there was more of Scarlett’s work in the collection than any other artists.
He participated in many of the museum exhibitions and galleries and was regularly exhibiting his work in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Modern Age Gallery in N.Y., the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He studied for a time at the Art Student League with William Merrit...
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1940s Modern Rolph Scarlett Art
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Paper, Gouache
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