Electra Carlin (September 28, 1912 – February 19, 2000) was an American art dealer and gallery owner in Fort Worth, Texas.
[4][1] The Carlins lived in Washington, D.C., and Roanoke, Virginia, while H. Lee worked at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the National Production Authority of the Department of Commerce.
Carlin continued exhibiting art at the gallery as well as Ridglea Country Club,[7] showing works by Fort Worth Circle-affiliated artists like Bill Bomar, Cynthia Brants, Blanche McVeigh, Edward Dickson Reeder, and Bror Alexander Utter.
[13] Throughout the 1960s, Carlin lectured women's clubs on how to purchase and decorate the home with fine paintings and partnered with the Junior League on exhibitions in other Texas cities.
[14][15][16] In 1970. the Carlin Gallery mounted a memorial |retrospective exhibition for prolific Fort Worth printmaker Blanche McVeigh that included "virtually all" of her prints.
Over the course of 31 years, Carlin Gallery held over 150 exhibitions with work by 130 artists[20] and steered the development of numerous museum collections in Texas.