Known for breathtaking, panoramic scenes of the Grand Canyon, Earl Carpenter has had reproductions of his work in "Arizona Highways" magazines. He also paints western genre, specializing in Indians and has been an illustrator.

Carpenter was born in Long Beach, California and was in in the United States Air Force in the 1950s. He then enrolled at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles followed by study at the Chouinard Art Institute. Many of his paintings in those days were cloudscapes depicting the beauty he had observed flying airplanes.

In 1960, he and his wife, Millie, having set out to explore the country from California, got no further than Arizona, living first in Sedona and later in Phoenix and from 1978 in Fl...