Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller
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At Canadian Embassy Gallery, B2
Media: Graphics, Painting, Photography, Crafts
The Canadian Embassy presents Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller which features 70 works including oil on canvas, gouache on paper, theatre and industrial designs, photographs, and jewellery.
Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984) was born in Guelph, Canada. He had a remarkable 75-year career working in New York. This is the first touring exhibition to document his modernist design drawings, stage designs, jewellery and non-objective paintings.
Scarlett was well known at the peak of his career in the 1930s and 1940s when sixty of his paintings were purchased by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Sculptural jewellery increasingly became his focus and after his retirement in the 1960s, he actively made jewellery until a few years before his death at the age of ninety-five.
Exhibition curator Judith Nasby, Director of Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph, comments: “The exhibition explores Scarlett’s career through examples of paintings and gouache studies from the 1930s and 1940s, theatre designs done in Pasadena and New York in the 1920s and 1930s, and a variety of precisely drawn industrial designs from the 1930s including a guided-missile design executed for the British War Office.” Nasby is also the author of a 180-page book on the artist.
Schedule
From 2006-05-26 To 2006-07-25
