Malcolm Carter

     Texas native Calvin Carter is a full time artist and High School Art Teacher in Texas.  He was raised in Hempstead, Texas where he learned his love for wildlife and sporting art in the fields near Katy, Texas with his father and grandfather.  He won his first National Art Contest at the age of 17 with the Izaak Walton Leauge Youth of America Art Contest.

     After High School he went on to pursue his art carerr under Professor Jerry Newman at Lamar Universtity in Beaumont, Texas.  Carter went on to graduate  from Lamar with a Bachelor's in fine Arts as well as become a certified school teacher.  He continued to mostly paint figurative art for some time before moving back in to his early childhood passion of wildlife and Sporting Art.  He received numerous commissions and some took him all the way to Alaska where he painted  on a boat for a fishing lodge.  He has created numerous Texas Stamp prints as well as placing fourth place in the Federal Duck Stamp Contest on his first attempt in 2013-2014.  Carter has recently entered the Western Art Scene with his Native American Art being shown in the APA Show, Southwest Art Magazine, Art of the West, Bosques Show and Pearce Museum permanent collection.  He now shows in The Sportsman's Art Galleriy in Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston South Carolina.  

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