How will you be remembered? What is your legacy?
◆ ◆ ART SLIDESHOW ◆ ◆ It all started with a girl!
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(TOP) Moshe Safdie, architect with Marina Bay Sands in the background. Another level of artistic ability. (MIDDLE) ◆ ◆ Carroll's Art Slideshow ◆ ◆ (BOTTOM) Carroll's Classroom. Death got this autodidact started at the age of 4½ y/o. A purple thistle drawing got Carroll painting in 1994. His story is unique in the last 600 years - It's Presidential Medal of Freedom quality. Owning the originals is spectacular and includes public service and bragging rights! Carroll paints detailed works as well and easily as contemporary abstracts. LUXURIOUS, LIFELIKE, DIVERSE COMPLEXITY, and TIMELESS TROPHIES by an AMERICAN ARTIST.
Have your ADC pick up your paintings at McKinney National Airport (KTKI).
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"I personally respond to ENQUERIES".
Carroll was coloring Christmas cards with a magnificent set of Crayola crayons as a 4½ y/o, after his older sister died tragically at age six and he couldn't find words to express grief, mourn, or put an end to survivor guilt.
Her name was Helen.
Painting is an extension of thought.
"All the adversity I've had in my life,
all my troubles and obstacles,
have strengthened me.
You may not realize it when it happens,
but a kick in the teeth may be
the best thing in the world for you".
- Walt Disney
"Do or do not. There is no try".
- Yoda in Star Wars (1977)
"Don't cry because it's over.
Smile because it happened".
- Dr. Seuss
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Carroll F. Burgoon, a maverick artist/writer
Art niche: 5-star art collectors.
The immigrant patriarch sailed from Burgundy, France and settled in Carroll County, MD in 1740.
The Burgoon patriarch settled next door to
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. A great, great, great ... uncle enlisted with General Washington.
Carroll was named in tribute to their neighbor.
He was born in 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and moved to DFW in Texas in June 1984.
His ancestors got to Texas in 1850.
Carroll has eight siblings: Helen (decd.), Janet, Anne, Thomas (Medical acupuncture, MD),
Peter (PE, water quality engineer), Michael (DC), Susan, and Elizabeth.
"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it".
- Vincent van Gogh
"How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water,
will in the long run tell what kind of
people we really are".
- John D. Rockefeller, philanthropist, conservationist, gave land to Jackson Hole, which became an elite playground.
And so, the multi-decades walkabout began
1️⃣ Carroll was an Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP - The oldest in the Western Hemisphere) Junior Curator at 5½ y/o, where he later served as a freshwater environmental scientist and Principal Investigator in Limnology & Ecology.
His Sigma Xi (ΣΞ) underwritten Honor's Thesis got him graduated from a private college.
"I'm constantly pushing the limits seeking the possible as a matter of improving efficiency.
I like solving problems lacking instructions.
I inadvertently mind the microscopic and the macroscopic details - the forest and the trees. That's how I play until the last whistle. It made me tick in school, in sport, in business, in art, in life. Plus, it's natural. I process a thousand ideas in seconds. That's my idea of fun. So, I'm a social maladroit! People like the result.
I'm an efficiency expert"!
2️⃣ Carroll was born an INFP-A creative.
CUT FROM A DIFFERENT CLOTH,
despite his MD parents wanting a scientist.
"My attire was jeans, a T-shirt, and sneakers -
to this day it still is".
He dropped out of a southern UGA Master's (Aquatic Entomology), a northern UDEL PhD (Ecology), and two Texas MBA programs --- Where he had the top grades in grad Calculus, Accounting and Marketing; He is certified and proven in Communication, Leadership & Sales.
"Academic study just wasn't my bag".
3️⃣ Carroll connects dots most don't see.
A referral from America's top boardroom consultant said, "[She] sent me. That can only mean one thing. You must be [super, super] good". Referrals from a top pro speaker's coach & consultant were a civilian USAF two-star in charge of 30,000 civilian scientists and
an oil gas giant sales and marketing VP, ...
and a teacher at École hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland who set the dinner table for the President of the United States of America.
He keynoted at chapters of the National Speakers Association, Tempe, Arizona.
Carroll didn't realize anyone was watching him until one day a card arrived from President George H.W. Bush at the White House, Wash., D.C. commending his community service. The president of the United States of America was watching. Carroll didn't change his behavior!
"I began a series of Prismacolor drawings of children commemorating a field trip I'd made to central and northwest Arkansas in 1991.
I made 5,000 limited editions and gave them away to Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas hospitals in 1994. I did not inform the hospital CEOs or the news media. I went through the directors of volunteers; It took one hour on the telephone to gift them to patients.
Art has played such an important role in my life. Alcaraz unleashed watercolor use.
WC requires a different way of thinking -
and that's my idea of everyday fun".
4️⃣ 5️⃣ 6️⃣ 7️⃣ Watercolor is like being fluent in Latin and a 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th language -
It teaches you to think out-of-the-box and probably wards off dementia while improving your brain's cognitive function as does multilingualism. Few master the foreign language of curating art on paper.
Carroll's been to 44 states in the U.S., plus
Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Haiti,
Portugal, and Puerto Rico seeking community.
One painting got about 10,000,000 views
in one month or so. "I like reaching people".
Carroll gave 500+ free public art talks and
appeared in 50+ newspaper features
his first year back in Texas.
His first book, Ode to Joy, shared a bookshelf with POTUS "W", PM Thatcher, SECDEF Rumsfeld, Gen Tommy Franks, and Gen Colin Powell in Gen Franks Leadership Institute and Museum in Kiowa County, Oklahoma.
"Hundreds of my paintings were rendered listening to Classical WRR 101.1 FM. I gave my book, Ode to Joy, to the operatic morning show host, Nancy Brunson. I was a member of Voce Forte (Dallas Opera) for young adults.
I grew up with great, timeless music".
CONFESSIONS (Favorites):
My favorite color is Ferrari RED symbolizing speed, passion, and well, game-changing, Masterful technique. Dopotutto (After all), it has a high-pitched Vvvrrrrrooooooom!"
Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who (Youtube, 2010, Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who - Google Search). Vincent van Gogh's estimated IQ 165. Could AI have made van Goghs, Picassos (IQ 175), Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Salvator Mundi, or The Last Supper, ...
Thus, I favor Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art of Bentonville, Arkansas,
the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas,
and The Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"I was surprised to receive a letter from
His Majesty Juan Carlos I The King of Spain
with a cover and courtesy translation from the Spanish Ambassador in Wash., D.C.".
8️⃣
"It was a Brazilian heiress, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo who arranged my study with
Don Francisco 'Paco' Alcaraz.
Her name was Helena.
Later, I learned Alcaraz is world famous.
Me, at 5' 7 ½," I was a Little Leaguer, wrestler, tennis player, martial artist, sprint cyclist, a runner, freshwater entomologist, and SCUBA diver. I move deliberately, slowly, then move
blindingly fast. Today, I play in the paint".
An artworld insider told Carroll he'd underpriced his paintings, 17+ years ago, and
that Carroll's paintings were superior. $8,800 per square inch is very reasonable.
9️⃣ PHILANTHROPY
2025 onward
Stream life and water conservation, education,
innovative medicine programs.
In 2024 Carroll gave one framed Spain '94 original painting to CEO, Chris Cassidy, a retired U.S. Navy SEAL and former NASA Chief Astronaut, at the world renown National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation to help raise $35 million to finish building the MOH Museum.
Carroll is not political.
Carroll heard about it at a Rotary Club meeting.
He is a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and
a Toastmasters ATM-Silver, etc.
Carroll was a Boys and Girls Club and
a County Judge appointed MHMR Board member.
Past (Pre-2013)
Dallas Baptist University, Dallas Theological Seminary and Foundation, Parkland Healthcare System, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Holy Family School McKinney, Plano International Preschool, PCPC Women's Ministry, Fisher
House, Children's Medical Center of Dallas and Foundation, Cook Children's of Fort Worth, Baylor University Medical Center, Easterseals Lonestar, Dallas Children's Advocacy Center,
Red Cross of Santa Fe, Aurora, Colorado-based the Adoption Exchange, etc., etc., etc.
Total U.S. $21 million.
"I let go of the fear of having colorful smiling timbre in my voice, being a lukewarm color, and became an artist in life. My feet are up under me. Figurative works integrate an abstract element, connecting the dots between imaginative lines letting
the best of the best happen"!
I MENTION EIGHT INFLUENTIAL TEACHERS:
"Thank You"! "شكرًا لك!" "Merci!" "Danke schön!" “謝謝你！” "Cảm ơn!"
"감사합니다!" "¡Gracias!" "Obrigado!" "Mauruuru koe!" "നന്ദി!"
1. Virginia Jane Smiley Burgoon, MD and 2. Carroll F. Burgoon, Jr., MD.
Parents and first teachers.
Carroll is their legacy.
3. Don and Mary Carter: Entrepreneurs, world travelers, aunt and uncle.
Carroll is their legacy.
4. Mrs. Kathy Dugas-Brown, 7th-Grade Art, General Wayne JHS, GVSD.
"A delightfully gifted JHS teacher, she taught me perspective, to draw hands,
fingers, and to decorate interiors with pleasing sophistication. She was beautiful.
She showed me Albrecht Dürer's Young Hare, Praying Hands, and Large Piece of Turf.
She set the bar very high for me --- She pushed me to do better then, even better.
Women always look at my fingers and wonder. I have good hands and soft eyes".
Carroll is her legacy.
5. Mr. Gregory Pierce, 8th-Grade Geography, General Wayne JHS, GVSD.
Mr. Pierce instilled his passion for National Parks and authors like Rachel Carson.
Carroll is his legacy.
6. BGen Woodrow Kessler USMC (Ret.), 11th-Grade Art Appreciation, Great Valley SHS,
"He took our art class to Dr. Barnes' home. and urged me to attend art school.
His teachings are evident in my watercolor art today".
Carroll is his legacy.
7. Don Francisco "Paco" Alcaraz. "He taught me that I could paint watercolors.
.En homenaje a Sr. Alcaraz (An orphan): 30 originals to The Adoption Exchange-NM. The artist Carroll's interview by CBS Evening News ran two weeks with the highest response in the Adoption's history. United Artist Theaters ran the images on the big screen before all movies in CO and NM for 30 days. "I seem to remember Alcaraz restored artifacts in Notre Dame and other famous Crusade Era cathedrals in France and Germany, as well as ancient cave paintings in Southern France and a museum's prized Rembrandt. What a gift to us."
Carroll is his legacy.
8. Carolyn G. Luhn who sheltered the artist for ten years as he winnowed this Web Site.
Carroll is her legacy.
"At 4:00 AM I stood alone in my business office and spoke, 'Father, you made me and know me better than anyone. Please reveal my gift and help me to use it.'
I didn't know anyone was listening at the time in November 1993.
I don't ask anyone's permission. I simply get it done.
This web site testifies to what happened."
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"Every place starts with a cadence and ends with a whistle. What you do in between, determines your legacy, so make sure you give it everything you've got until you hear that whistle".
- Coach Tommy Tice in the movie Greater (2016)
about #77 Brandon Burlsworth,
Arkansas Razorback walk-on, All American.
Coach Tice is Vice Chairman on the Board of the Brandon Burlsworth Foundation and Farmington Head Football Coach Farmington, AR.
"I am here and able to do this because UDT-14 (WWII - early U.S. Navy SEALs) kept my dad's boat safe and unmarred in the Pacific Theater: The Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
More than a sentimentalist, I remember what they did and their valorous service".
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