Their home is just a few miles from the Sun Ranch where Gary gained an intensive education and precious insight into the world of the cowboy. Even today he helps friends with roundups.

Gary collects western books and artifacts, but is a man with wide ranging passions. Fly-fishing, street rodding and building model railroads are but a few of his interests.

In 1980 Gary and his brother jack started the Gary Carter print company and to date we have about 80 releases.

In 1982 Gary was accepted as a member of the Cowboy Artists of America, the most prestigious organization for western art in the world. There are usually between 23 and 29 members. The CA's as they are called are known not only for their beautiful work but also for the accuracy and knowledge of the west. Gary functioned as president of the organization in 1986.

Gary paints the contemporary and historic American West from Mountain Men to Indians, and today’s cowboys. He also includes some of his favorite subjects like grizzly bears and elk. He has a great sense of humor and loves to portray animals gaining the upper hand.

In June 1991, Gary was adopted by the RealBird Family, and the crow tribe, and welcomed into the Big Lodge Clan. Gary’s Indian name is EagleMan. Each year Gary’s Indian brothers put on a reenactment of Custer’s Last Stand. Of course it's the Indian version done on there own land at medicine tail coulee, the only privately owned land at Custer’s battlefield. Gary usually attends and develops some great ideas for paintings by doing the reenactment.

Gary’s artwork can be seen in many public collections and exhibits, he also teaches workshops on occasion and we will keep you updated on the next one. Gary’s work has been on calendars and note cards, something we will look forward to repeating in the future. He is in several books two being “A Brush with the West”, by Dale Burk, and “Old Masters of the West”, by Chase Reynolds. Gary’s book will be released by 2006 and maybe sooner if the fishing isn’t any good.

Gary has received many awards and honors and has had articles in Art of the West, Western Horseman, Horse and Rider, Cowboy Magazine, Big Sky

Journal, Southwest Art, True West, Outdoor Life, Horse Journal, Northwest Living, Wild West, Equus, to name just a few.

Gary belongs to and is active in groups and organizations like. The Montana Cruising Association, Big Sky Kids, Kentucky Colonel, N.S R A, National Rifle Association, The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, and SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) it's for all the children of the 50's who used to sneak their cap pistols into the matinees.

Gary is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He is serving as the Bishop in the West Yellowstone Montana Ward.