Located in Fort Worth, Texas, Carlin Galleries was one of the first private galleries in Texas dedicated to art and focused primarily on artists from Fort Worth and the Southwest. Carlin Galleries was also one of the first galleries outside Canada to show Inuit art.
Gallery owner Electra Marshall Carlin (1912-2000), was a member of a pioneer Fort Worth family. She met H. Lee Carlin at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. The two were married but she returned to Fort Worth following her husband's death. There Carlin took over a shop called Wonderful Things and renamed the business Carlin Galleries which she operated from 1959 to 1990.