Geometric Abstract
Type:Painting
Year:1930's or early 1940"s
Size:27.00" x 20.00" x 1.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Right
Rolph Scarlett ART FOR SALE
1889 Guelph, Ontario, Canada - 1984 Woodstock, New York. Known for: Non objective-geometric, modernist-leaning landscape painting.
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go... Read full biography
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. 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 he had... Read full biography
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. 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 he 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 for the Rockettes at... Read full biography
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. 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 he 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 for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. In 1939, while in the process of 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... Read full biography
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. 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 he 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 for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. In 1939, while in the process of 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 sixty of his paintings and monoprints. He... Read full biography
Rolph Scarlett - Art for Sale (7 available)
Abstract
Type:Painting
Size:12.00" x 18.00" x 2.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Right
Abstract
Type:Painting
Year:1947
Size:8.75" x 11.50" x 2.00"
Medium:Gouache
Signed:Lower Right
Rare Early Geometric Painting With Copper Wire
Type:Painting
Year:C. 1948
Size:20.00" x 36.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
A rare painting / sculptural work by a Guggenheim master. The piece contains embedded copper wire creating a dynamic, 3-dimentional effect. I purchased this work directly from Rolph Scarlett's stepdaughter, Elizabeth Pollet. We have the largest dealer inventory of Scarlett Estate works.
Wave Form - Mix Media on Board - 20x30 in.
Type:Painting
Year:C.1948
Size:20.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Pristine mix-media on board by Rolph Scarlett. This is an early abstraction by an incredibly undervalued early modern American artist. Provenance: The Artist, to Private Collection, NY; to Benton Gallery 2008
Equilibrium (Geometric Pinwheel)
Type:Painting
Year:Circa 1958-1960
Size:49.75" x 49.75"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Abstract
Type:Painting
Size:48.00" x 35.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right