20 Facts About Esther Rolick

Esther Rolick was an American painter born in Rochester, New York, on October 9,1922.

Esther Rolick studied at the Art Students League and was represented by Jacques Seligmann Galleries in New York in the early 1950's.

Esther Rolick was a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and her exhibition credits range from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Le Centre D'Art in Haiti.

Esther Rolick is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, and her papers are in the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.

Esther Rolick was known for her style which was considered to be both expressionist and neo-romantic.

Esther Rolick was one of the few female artists in the avante-gard movement of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Esther Rolick taught college classes for many years and achieved recognition for taking innovative approaches.

Esther Rolick attended public schools in Rochester, New York and graduated from the city's Washington High School in 1940.

Esther Rolick took art classes while in school and studied under the sculptor William Ehrich in Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery.

Esther Rolick traveled to New York City in the early 1940s to study under the American expressionist artist, Harry Sternberg, and others at the Art Students League.

When it appeared in Louisville, Kentucky, a critic for the Louisville Courier-Journal said Esther Rolick had been remarkably successful for a 24-year-old artist, having made sales to collectors, including the art historian Wilhelm Valentiner.

Esther Rolick presented a solo exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and drawings in 1950 at the Rochester Historical Society.

Esther Rolick died in a nursing home in Rochester in 2008.

Esther Rolick made sculptures and drawings early in her career but received most notice for her oils.

Esther Rolick was known for realist paintings and fantastic treatment of natural subjects.

Esther Rolick was born on October 9,1922, in Rochester, New York.

Esther Rolick ran a local shoe store and was well known for selling boots and shoes to farmers out of a hand-pushed barrow at the Rochester Public Market.

Esther Rolick's mother was Rose Esther Rolick, who helped her husband run the shoe business while raising a large family.

Esther Rolick had one child given up for adoption in the late 1940s.

Esther Rolick returned to Rochester in the early 1990s and, in the early years of the next decade, moved to the Jewish Home of Rochester, a long-term care facility.