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With more than 170 sculptures, drawings, and paintings, this is the first comprehensive view of the art of Renaissance man Arthur Carter. Successful in journalism and business, and trained as a classical pianist, Carter is an accomplished artist in the modernist tradition. His abstract sculptures allude to human gestures and interactions. Though firmly grounded, they appear on the verge of flight. Though silent, they suggest song. His lyrical drawings and rigorous paintings, often studies for sculptures, are informed by a deep familiarity with the artists he admires most: Mondrian, Kandinsky, Arp, Bracque, and Picasso.
Art historian and journalist Charles A. Riley II explores Carter's work, and Peter Kaplan, editor of the New York Observer, contributes an illuminating biographical essay. Arthur Carter: Sculptures, Drawings, and Paintings presents the compelling artistic vision of a fascinating man.

Arthur Carter is a New York sculptor and painter who turned to art after a long career in finance and publishing. His large metal sculptures, some of monumental size, are on view in several prominent locations in and around New York City. Carter's work is composed of geometric shapes, with his artistic concerns focused on the mathematical and spatial relationships among them. Riley (The Art of Peter Max) contributes an essay situating Carter's art within 20th-century sculpture, and Kaplan (editor, New York Observer) discusses Carter's unusual life trajectory in a biographical essay. The book includes a life chronology and over 170 works illustrated in color photographs. VERDICT Readers in the New York area and those interested in outdoor public sculpture will appreciate this as the first book about Carter's work to include his paintings and drawings as well as sculpture.-Kathryn Wekselman, MLn., Cincinnati

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