Louis Finkelstein (1923 – 20 June 2000) was an American painter, art critic and professor who taught for at Queens College, City University of New York.
Several of his works have been compared to those of French artist and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).
Born in New York City in 1923, Louis Finkelstein studied painting at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York and the Brooklyn Museum School of Art that used to be located in the museum as a part of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Finkelstein received several Fulbright grants, an NEA for painting, and he was a member of the National Academy of Design.
[1] His paintings have been shown at Yale University, the New York Studio School, the Riverside Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy.