Arthur Carter is a man of many talents. A graduate of Brown University with a degree in French literature, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard before attending the Tuck School at Dartmouth, where he earned his M.B.A. in finance. Carter then embarked on a 25-year career in investment banking. In 1981, he started his first newspaper, the Litchfield County Times, and six years later he founded the New York Observer. Carter also began making sculptures out of metal, using welding skills from his time in the Coast Guard. In 2019, Harry N. Abrams published two books dealing with Carter’s work. Carter has served as a teacher as well; he has held adjunct professorships in philosophy and journalism at New York University, where the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute was founded, and is currently a trustee of New York University and Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University. Carter has been a featured solo artist at many galleries, including the Leila Heller Gallery in New York, Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut, Southampton Arts Center on Long Island, Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, the Grey Art Gallery and 80WSE Galleries at New York University in New York City, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT.
Arthur Carter
Studios
New Hampshire
Arthur Carter worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…