Painter, designer and printmaker Rolph Scarlett is known for his important contributions to the development of 20th century American abstract art. Solomon Guggenheim collected many of his works and made him chief lecturer at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) in 1940,

a post which he held until 1949. Scarlett's work was exhibited widely throughout his career and is represented in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Untitled (Modernist Improvisation 19) - c.1940, Colored Pencil, Gouache, and Ink.

Signed in ink, lower left.

Image size 6 x 8 3/4 inches (152 x 222 mm).

A fine abstract expressionist work, the image extending to the sheet edge, on cream wove paper, in excellent condition.

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Untitled (Abstract Expressionist Composition in Blue and Green) - c.1940, Color Monotype with Gouache.

Signed in ink, lower left.

Image size 9 x 11 inches (229 x 279 mm).

A fine, painterly, abstract expressionist work, with fresh colors, the image extending to the sheet edge, on cream wove Japan paper, in excellent condition.

$1600.

Untitled (Modernist Improvisation 11) - c.1945, Watercolor.

Signed, lower right.

Image size 24 3/16 x 19 3/8 inches (614 x 492 mm).

A fine abstract expressionist work, the image extending to the sheet edge, on cream watercolor paper, in excellent condition.

$1800.