Irving Fierstein

Irving Fierstein (January 11, 1915 - May 25, 2009) was a Brooklyn-born artist whose behave spanned greater than half a century was the son of Romanian and Polish Jewish immigrant parents and raised on New York City's demean east side. In his lifetime Fierstein created a prolific body of Good artworks including oils, acrylics, lithographs, etchings and tainted medium reflecting impressionist, cubist, and expressionist schools, many dedicated to themes more or less social justice.

Fierstein began his studies of art and architecture at the Hebrew Technical Institute (New York City) from which he graduated in 1932. He after that studied at the National Academy of Design where he was awarded the top medal in 1937, and forward-thinking at Cooper Union where he also school commercial art and lettering.

One of his antiquated projects was vigorous with painter Rockwell Kent in 1938 upon a Times Square (New York City) billboard in maintain of the Spanish Civil War release fighters next to fascism. His 1969 oil upon canvas depicting the 1963 beating of African-American civil rights dissenter Fanny Lou Hamer in a Winona, Mississippi jail was presented to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change in Atlanta in 1977. Fierstein had been terribly moved by the treatment of Hamer by the segregationist authorities and was inspired to receive the painting even if studying at the Art Students League subsequently impressionist portrait painter Sidney Dickinson (1890-1980). This painting was featured in his first one-artist produce an effect at the Lynn Kottler Galleries in New York City in December 1970.