He was a member of the Art Students League of Chicago in 1923.[4] Ferstadt later won a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York at the age of 23 and moved to New York City. He later studied at The Educational Alliance art school after his scholarship funds were depleted.[1] In 1926–1927, Ferstadt did a comic strip called The Kids on Our Block in the New York Evening Graphic.[5]
He painted murals at the RCA Building and the Eighth Street Subway station in New York City on the occasion of the 1939 World's Fair.[6] He drew comics, including "Chuck",[7] "Mr. Risk",[8] and "The Bouncer". Ferstadt identified as a communist and regularly contributed comic strips for the Daily Worker newspaper.[9]
Kleeblatt, Norman L. (1991). Painting a place in America : Jewish artists in New York 1900–1945 ; a tribute to the Educational Alliance Art School ; [published on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition organized by the Jewish Museum, New York ... May 16 – September 29, 1991]. Bloomington [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press [u.a.] ISBN 9780253285362.
Jordan, Darran (2015). Green Lantern History: An Unauthorised Guide to the DC Comic Book Series Green Lantern. Lulu. ISBN 9781326139636.
References
^ a b c d"Louis Ferstadt (1900-1954)". American Jewish Art. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
^ a bMarcus, Jacob Rader; Daniels, Judith M. (1994). The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub. p. 153. ISBN 9780926019744.
^ a bSAIC Archives
^The Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of the Works of the Art Students League of Chicago 1923