Rolph scarlett biography

  • Born on June 13, in Guelph, Canada, and into an artistic family, Rolph Scarlett spent his teenage years as an apprentice in his uncle's jewelry firm.
  • Rolph Scarlett was a consummate explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting.
  • During Rolph Scarlett's remarkable seventy-five year career he was an avant-garde abstract painter, an innovative set designer, an industrial designer.

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    The first critical retrospective of Rolph Scarlett's extraordinary achievements.

    During Rolph Scarlett's remarkable seventy-five year career he was an avant-garde abstract painter, an innovative set designer, an industrial designer, and the creator of unique sculptural jewellery in the American modernist tradition. In this beautifully illustrated book Judith Nasby presents a retrospective of his life and work.

    Scarlett was born in Guelph, Ontario, in By the time he moved to the United States in he had already had some experience with the techniques of painting, jewellery, and designing for the stage which he put to good use in his career in New York. During the s and s Scarlett was a leading practitioner of geometric abstraction, with sixty of his paintings in the collection of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). A geometric sensibility also inspired the innovative, constructionist stage designs that he created for plays such as George B

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     Composition with yellow discs
    Gouache on paper, circa
    8 x 13 inches

    Biography

    Rolph Scarlett was born in , in Guelph, Ontario. Painter and designer of stage sets, industrial products and jewelry, was a favorite artist of Hilla Rebay, the painter who founded the Museum of Non-Objective Painting that eventually became the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Scarlett travelled to New York in where he viewed the Armory Show. He came away fascinated with modern art.

    Publishers abstract: During Rolph Scarletts remarkable seventy-five year career he was an avant-garde sammanfattning painter, an innovative set designer, an industrial designer and the creator of unique sculptural jewellery in the American modernist tradition. In this beautifully illustrated book, Judith Nasby presents a retrospective of his life and work. Scarlett was born in Guelph, Ontario, in By the time he moved to the United States in he had already had some experience with the techniques of painting, jewellery, and design

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