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7:00 AM PT - Jul 28th, 2007
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Rolph Scarlett (American, 1889 - 1984) Non-Objective Composition. Pencil, gouache, and crayon. c1930s. Initialed, lower right. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (286 x 216 mm). Sheet Size: 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (286 x 216 mm). Rolph Scarlett was an important painter of geometric abstractions during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left at the age of eighteen for New York City and returned to Canada during the war years. But by 1924 he had established New York City as his home. Early in his career as an abstract painter, he designed stages for George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" and for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. While in the process of creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), in 1939 Solomon Guggenheim and Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett's work. In 1940 he was named the new museum's chief lecturer, and by 1953 the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints. He later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and showed his work in the Woodstock exhibits. (Courtesy: AskART). Framed. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images: 
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