Robert Carter

About Robert Carter

Robert Graham Carter, a Long Island resident for decades, has been a celebrated artist and illustrator for more than 60 years. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was receptive to line, color, and form and had an intuitive feeling for design at an early age, winning the Scholastic Art & Writing Award at age 17. His passion became a profession driven by a sensitivity to detail that serves as the legacy and abiding thread connecting the continuum of his art. The dignity of the human spirit reigns within the people of Robert’s compositions, uplifted by the virtuosity of his hand and his profound understanding of the human experience.

Robert received his Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York in 1966 and was an illustrator for McGraw Hill and Simon & Schuster. A retired professor of art at Nassau Community College after over 50 years, Robert has been a sought-after lecturer and demonstrator at numerous public schools, universities, and private art organizations.

Robert’s work is in the permanent collection of various institutions/museums across the United States, including the Denver Art Museum, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, The Long Island Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, The Petrucci Family Foundation, the Speed Art Museum and Yale Law School. In 1973, The Heckscher Museum held a solo exhibition of Robert’s work. A traveling solo museum show is opening at The Heckscher Museum of Art on February 1, 2025 and moves to the Cressman Center Galleries, University of Louisville in August 2025. His work will be included in Norman Rockwell Museum’s upcoming “Imprinted: Illustrating Race” traveling exhibition. A retrospective exhibition is also being planned in 2027 at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, his hometown. This show will commemorate the museum’s 100th anniversary and will include Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson and Kenneth Victor Young.