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Esther Rolick is among the most talented of our younger artists. Born in Rochester of Russian-Polish parents, she cannot remember when she first started to paint, but while still in her teens she graduated from New York's Art Students League with honors, and was only twenty at the time of her first, New York one-man exhibition. 

It has been the natural inclination of critics to try to classify her work, to compare it with that of earlier artists — some have mentioned Van Gogh, one El Greco, because of her pertentous skies. But her paintings are independent of influences; they are honest expressions of her emotional experiences, set down n gloriously strong colors and with fine legibility. 

She paints Spring with bright delicacy, the tragedy of abandoned things with dark pathos, the frantic writhing of wind torn trees in colliding reds and blacks, while her animals, such as those in "War" and "Peace" are handled with gentle fantasy seldom found in contemporary works. 


Theresa D. Parker,
New York,                                     Contemporary American Dept.
Jacques Seligmann Galleries.


New York

October 1953.

Dear Mr. Thornton:
Please take any liberties you wish with the above — delete, amend, enlarge or change completely. 

I hope I shall be able to get down to visit you while her show is up — in any event, I shall try. 

With best wishes to you, and love to Esther,

Sincerely,

Mrs. Theresa D. Parker.

October 7th., 1953.
 

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*clarify for classify? A whole line missing. Wrong year, twice!