Rolph Scarlett

Composition with yellow discs

Gouache on paper

8 x 13 inches

Availability: SOLD

Biography:

Rolph Scarlett was born in 1889, 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 1913 where he viewed the Armory Show. He came away fascinated with modern art.