Rolph Scarlett Abstract Expressionist Painting, ca. 1960

Rolph Scarlett

Untitled, ca. 1960

Gouache, Ink, Watercolor on Paper . Hand signed, with original Jonas Aarons Gallery label

Hand signed lower right recto

26 3/4 × 32 inches

Gouache Painting, ca. 1960, Signed.  Framed with Jo Aarons Gallery label verso.  

Scarlett was collected alongside Wassily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer & Thomas Eldred. This work was acquired from the estate of collector philanthropist Jonas Aarons, who ran an eponymous art gallery in Rhinebeck, New York, for many years prior to his passing. We removed it from its original vintage frame but kept the matting with beveled edges and the back board with the Jo Aarons gallery label as provenance, so when it's re-framed, it will be preserved. Rolph Scarlett (1889–D. 1984) was a Non-Objective modernist artist known for his abstracted paintings of geometric forms and design. Always experimenting during his career, Scarlett employed a wide ranging color palette and visually graphic elements in much of his work. His work has included elements of Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction, and Non-Objective painting, but it also absorbed various other styles seamlessly into his work. Scarlett briefly studied at the Art Students League in 1908 and 1909, working with such fellow artists as John Sloan, George Luks, and William Merritt Chase. In the late forties, Scarlett became involved with Hilla Rebay (who often described Scarlett as her greatest discovery) and led to what is known as his Guggenheim period, with the institution eventually collecting much of his work.
Overall Size: 18.75 x 23 in. (47.62 x 58.42 cm.)