Irving Fierstein (January 11, 1915 – May 25, 2009) was a Brooklyn-born artist whose work spanned over half a century was the son of Romanian and Polish Jewish immigrant parents and raised on New York City's lower east side.

In his lifetime Fierstein created a prolific body of fine artworks including oils, acrylics, lithographs, etchings and mixed medium reflecting impressionist, cubist, and expressionist schools, many dedicated to themes about social justice.

[2] His 1969 oil on canvas depicting the 1963 beating of African-American civil rights activist Fanny Lou Hamer in a Winona, Mississippi jail was presented to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change in Atlanta in 1977.

[3][4][5] Fierstein had been deeply moved by the treatment of Hamer by the segregationist authorities and was inspired to undertake the painting while studying at the Art Students League with impressionist portrait painter Sidney Dickinson (1890-1980).

[13] In the years after the war by 1948 Irving and Hannah Fierstein joined with the families of 9 other artists and architects to establish the community of Harmon Park in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in Westchester County just north of Manhattan.

Out of Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Mideast”;[34] Stop Racist Terror Against the Black Community – Jail Goetz and Killer Cops”;[35] “No Fare Hike – Good for Bankers’ Profits”.