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Louis Slobodkin was born to Ukrainian immigrants in Albany, New York, on February 19, 1903. Although he briefly held the office of “chief cartoonist” on the Albany High School newspaper, Louis was unsuited to the rigors of a public education and anxious to become an artist.

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When he was 15, he conducted a “one-man sit-down strike” until his parents permitted him to leave school and enroll at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City. He worked odd jobs for five years to pay his way through school, meanwhile earning a Louis Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and 22 medals for life study, composition, and drawing.

At age 20, his restive spirit compelled him against better judgment to ship out as a deckhand in the merchant marine. This experience later yielded a treasure trove of salty sea stories in his 1945 memoir, Fo’castle Waltz, based on his “alleged adventures aboard an Argentine freighter.” Returning to the States to resume life a