Rolph scarlett biography of donald
Judith Nasby's Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller is as much a project in reclaiming Canadian cultural production as it is an interrogative.!
Rolph Scarlett Canadian, 1889-1984
Rolph Scarlett was a consummate explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting.
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him while steadfastly aware that he was on his own path and his alone, Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist of the eras in which he lived.
Exposed very early on to the work of Paul Klee through a chance meeting in Europe with the artist himself, Scarlett took up abstraction with a fervor that never diminished during his long and impressive career.
Rolph Scarlett Canadian, Abstraction, c Tempera on paper on board.
To create something that had never existed before: this was Scarlett’s great cause. And that is what is most obvious when you look at Scarlett’s work—you have never seen anything quite like it.
Scarlett was Canadian-born, came of age in the Midwest, and spent few important years in Hollywood, where he designed stage sets.
His work from this early period echoes Klee&r