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Rolph Scarlett

Rolph Scarlett, American (1889-1984).



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
eighteen 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 in the process of creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum) in 1939, founder and director Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett's work.
Scarlett's acceptance into the Museum of Non-objective painting resulted in a close friendship
with Rebay. By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints. With artists
such as Rudolph Bauer, also working at the Guggenheim, and Rebay, offering their constructive criticism,
Scarlett was guided through the Non-objective art world by the hand, but was never blinded by their
personal artistic philosophies.

His body of work reflects an artist truly devoted to the exploration and continuation of abstract
art, while simultaneously holding onto the romantic conception of the artist being the creator, an
idea wholeheartedly rejected by the tenets of Non-Objective art, which is ironically what he is most
well-known for.

Scarlett later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and
showed his work in the Woodstock exhibits. His paintings are included in the collections of the
Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Smithsonian, and
The Woodstock Art Association.

"Geometric Abstraction"
Signed lower right.
Mixed media on paper. 7 1/4" x 9 1/2"

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