Retirement
After he retired from Mad in 1985, Feldstein began painting again after his son, Mark Feldstein, gave him his first oil paint set since pre-Mad. He left Connecticut and relocated in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he spent three years painting the Teton Range and its wildlife.[6] Two of his paintings from that period placed in the Arts for the Parks Top 100, a competition created in 1987 by the National Park Academy of the Arts,Inc. of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.[11]
Feldstein moved in 1992 to Paradise Valley, Montana, near Livingston, finding new approaches to depict the Western way of life in his acrylic paintings. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree by Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, and that year again ranked in the Top 100 of the Arts for the Parks' Competition. He is represented by numerous Northwest galleries, and he continued to create his Western, wildlife and landscape paintings at his 270 acre (1.1 km2) ranch south of Livingston and north of Yellowstone National Park.[11]
In 2000, he was invited to give the Commencement Address to the new century's first graduating class at Rocky Mountain College.[11]
He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003.
In 2011, he received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association.[12]
Feldstein died on April 29, 2014, at his home in Paradise Valley, Montana, near Livingston.[13] No cause of death was released.[14]
