Summary: | Artist and professor Bob Carter was born on March 29, 1938, in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky in 1960, and his M.F.A. degree from Pratt Institute in New York City in 1962. His first job was as an artist for WHAS-TV in Louisville, painting scenery, then becoming a set designer, fabricator and, finally, a floor director. After WHAS, Carter did freelance work for several publishing companies, including McGraw Hill, D. C. Heath (now Houghton Mifflin) and Simon and Shuster. Many of his illustrations were featured in children's books. He also became a professor of art at Nassau Community College in New York. His work was featured in a number of galleries and collections, including Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, and at the First Annual Harlem Fine Arts Show, sponsored by The New York Times in 2010.
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