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Email PageAbstract Interludes and Figurative Musings: Monotypes and Works on Paper
February 10, 2007- March 17, 2007
Rolph Scarlett
ACA Galleries
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Rolph Scarlett, an accomplished artist, industrial designer, set designer and jeweler, applied his Modernist sensibility to a diversity of projects which included creating stage designs for George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, designing displays and amusement rides for the 1939 New York World’s Fair as well as producing guided missile designs for the British War Office.
Born in Guelph, Canada, he moved to the United States in 1919. By the 1930s he had become one of the foremost practitioners of Geometric Abstraction in America. In 1938 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship from the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, (now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).The following year when the museum opened, he was included in its inaugural exhibition. During the 1930s and 40s the museum acquired 60 of his paintings and works on paper for their permanent collection.
His works can be found in many museums including Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and University of Guelph, Ontario.
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