Gary Lawrence Niblett
b. 1943

BORN IN
Carlsbad, New Mexico
KNOWN FOR
Western scene painting-cowboys, Indians, horses
Born and raised in Carlsbad, New Mexico and living with his wife, Monika in Santa Fe, Gary Niblett is a painter, primarily with oil, of western scenes especially Navajo and Pueblo Indians, cowboys on horses in landscape, and frontier genre.
In 1976, Niblett was voted into the Cowboy Artists of America, painters and sculptors dedicated to representational western art in the tradition of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. In New Mexico, he has received much attention for the quality of his painting. In 1990, he was named “Distinguished Calendar Artist” for New Mexico Magazine, and one of his oil paintings is in the collection of the New Mexico state capitol building.