Arthur L. Carter was born on December 24, 1931, in New York City. Trained as a classical pianist, he continued his studies in French Literature at Brown University and received his A.B. in 1953. Mr. Carter served for three years in the U.S. Coast Guard as a Lieutenant, Junior Grade and was honorably discharged in 1956. Thereafter, he went on to the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and obtained his MBA in Finance in 1959.

In 1981, after a 25-year investment banking career, Mr. Carter founded the Litchfield County Times and six years later The New York Observer. In 1990 and 1991 Mr. Carter was Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at New York University and in 2002 he was Adjunct Professor of Journalism at New York University.

Mr. Carter has exhibited his bronze and steel sculptures at the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries in New York, the Piltzer Gallery in Paris, Gallery Henoch in New York and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville.