Rolph Scarlett, Canadian-American, 1889-1984, Canada, New York, Non-objective, geometric, modernist, landscape “Geometric Abstract” Signed lower right Rolph Scarlett created geometric abstractions in the 1930s and 1940s during the American avant-garde movement. He helped to create the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (Guggenheim), becoming the chief lecturer by 1940, and exhibiting next to Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. He was a resident and frequent exhibitor in the Woodstock art colony. He created artworks that were alive with color, stimulating rhythms, cerebral emotion, mystic, and authoritative. This abstraction is composed of arcs that combine in a circle, with jagged forms. They burst above the black background in explosions of color.Dimensions: 7.25 x 9.25 in. sheet, 15.25 x 17.5 in. frameArtist or Maker: Rolph ScarlettMedium: Gouache and graphite on paperDate: c. 1940

Good. Not examined outside of frame.