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Rolph Scarlett (American, 1891-1984)
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Rolph Scarlett
Untitled, SED-2 circa 1940-1955
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Biography |
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1889 |
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Born, Guelph, Ontario |
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1924 |
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Moved to New York, NY, where he was a student of Paul Klee and Rudolph Bauer |
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1907 - 1936 |
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Theater Designer, Hollywood, CA |
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1938 |
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Returned to New York and became involved in the NY avant-garde movement |
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1939 |
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Pavillion designer, New York World's Fair, New York, NY |
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1940 |
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Chief Lecturer, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1955 |
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Moved to the artist's colony in Woodstock, NY |
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1984 |
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Died, New York, NY |
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Collections
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Ontario, Canada
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2006 |
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"Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller" (solo) Embassy of Canada, Prince Takamado Gallery, (in collaboration with the Decorative Arts Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts" |
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2005 |
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"Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon Guggenheim" (group) Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY and St. Joseph Art Gallery, West Hartford, CT |
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2003 |
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"Rudolph Bauer, Hilla Rebay, Rolph Scarlett and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting", Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY |
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2000 |
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"The American Century", Whitney Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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1988 |
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Washburn Gallery, New York, NY |
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1987 |
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"The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism 1911-1947", Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO |
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1981 |
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Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY |
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1950 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1949 |
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Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France |
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1947 |
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Gallerie Charpentier, Paris, France |
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1946 |
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Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France |
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1940 |
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Art of the Modern Age Gallery, New York, NY |
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1940 |
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Gallerie Charpentier, Paris, France |
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1940 |
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Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France |
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