One of his signature works, "Universal Woman", a life-sized figure of a woman composed entirely of hardware gained the admiration of renowned sculptor Jacques Lipchitz at a sidewalk show in New York in the early 1960s. Both are modernist sculptors. The Washington Post featured a zoom image from their files of this sculpture in its electronic edition of their 2006 tribute to Gary at his death. A 1971 museum exhibit of his fine art in Washington, D.C. was cited in his listing in "Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America", a standard library art reference. In 2011 the Asbury Park Press referred to Gary as an icon in the arts.[http://www.app.com/article/20110912/NJENT08/309120079/Jersey-s-loss-Florida-s-gain]