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June 16th,. 1950.

Re: Candidate for Louis Comfort Tiffany Scholarship, ESTHER G. ROLICK.

Dear Sirs:

Miss Esther G. Rolick tells me that she has applied for a Tiffany Scholarship, and I hope you will allow me to express the high regard with which her accomplishments are regarded by Mr. Seligman and myself. 

We saw Miss Rolick's work first in the Fall of 1946 - she was 25 years old at the time - and were so impressed that we arranged a one-man exhibition, which opened in January of 1947. The following year we again organized a solo show for her, and of course included her in every group manifestation during the interval between one-man exhibitions. Thereafter she went to Europe. She will no doubt have told you of exhibitions to which she was invited to participate, institutions which purchased her paintings, etc., so I shall not attempt to list them here.

She possesses a great talent, inventiveness, sympathy for her subjects, love of animals and nature, and into each canvas she paints whit that I will describe as a "leitmotif" of fantasy - charming, poetic notes.

Miss Rolick has told me of the projects she wishes to carry out, were the means put at her disposal. I am certain she would render her themes with individuality and that they would delight the spectator. Her paintings are always strong, virile interpretations, some with eerie ghost-like atmospheres as in crumbling buildings, others with the quality of a lovely fairy tale.

She is an indefatigable worker with a reservoir of enthusiasm...and the necessary ability - a fine young painter worthy of your consideration.

I hope you will not feel I have taken advantage of this opportunity to express our views of the candidate. 

Yours very sincerely,
Mrs. T. D. Parker
Contemporary American Department.

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
1085 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N.Y.