The career of artist Carl Roters spanned nearly the entire 20th century. Roters spent the first half of his career based in New York, where he became a renowned muralist and a professor of Art at Syracruse University. In the 1950s, Roters’ career changed direction when he won a competition to paint historic murals in Grand Teton National Park. The latter half of his career, based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, focused on themes of American Western history of significance to the area.