FAQs: The Artist Carroll™

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EXTRAORDINARILY-GIFTED

"A global business owner apprised me,

'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.' You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if it was Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. I'm no Leonardo da Vinci and I never went to art school.

AI: "The ARTIST Carroll™" refers to Carroll Foster Burgoon, III, [formerly] a McKinney, Texas-based watercolor and portrait artist. Formerly a scientist, he transitioned to art and is best known for his patriotic and leadership-themed paintings, including his iconic tribute to [Veterans, Patriot Guard Riders and] General Tommy Franks,

He First Served as a Private."

The original painting is displayed at the Leadership Institute and Museum. It was unveiled by GTF on the steps of the Institute in front of 750 Patriot Guard Riders on Memorial Day at the Celebration of Freedom. The Charlie Daniels Band gave a concert opened by the artist's "Brother," HOF and CGMA recipient, musician Jim Whitaker.

Women Made the Difference

"I'll always remember Ms. Kathie Dugas 7th Grade teacher at General Anthony Wayne Junior High School (GVSD) who taught me to draw hands and showed me the art of watercolorist and mathematician Albrecht Dürer. A Colonial Brazilian heiress arranged my painting studies with famed European, Alcaraz. A woman redecorated her office around 40+ of my originals and brought the bride of her #1 client to see the collection; Her friend bought my art!!! as did a PGA & Open champion's bride and a Big Pharma heiress and a booze king's daughter. A Quarter horse-loving petroleum heiress, married to a Hall of Fame cowboy and NFL player paid my way to study under Sr. Alcaraz in Europe with the proviso that she gets the first dibs when I returned. Arts patron Mrs. Kitsy Westmoreland had her son take her picture with me at a black tie aboard the Queen Mary, amidst 40 MOHs, where a Knight Commander, Knights of Malta, who reported to the Pope, invited me to join his cadre of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Soviet/Russian Gorbachev and two South American presidents in his elite priory.

Several women sheltered me while

I was passing over 'black ice'.

Thank you.

"Otra vez". "Again". (He said)

- Don Fco. "Paco" Alcaraz

Carroll's favorite film is Miracle (2004, produced by Mark Ciardi, et al. One mentor was Ciardi's Brewers pitcher sinker-slider teammate.) Carroll wore thirteen pairs of Waffle Racers annually, changing to a new pair every 250 miles, and wore Nikes in Spain when he studied with the prodigy artist Alcaraz (See the photograph in Carroll's personal collection).

The 1st Ten Years

"A Texas House Representative wanted me to be the State Artist Laureate. But I didn't keep track of the 50+ news features, 500+ keynotes my first year back in Texas, quietly gave 5,000 signed Arkansas prints to DFW hospital patients and didn't sell via art galleries or exhibit my art. Works were given to children's hospitals, adoption, children's advocacy, education, ...

Ron Anderson, MD, President and CEO, Parkland Hospital, wanted my art in every hospital room and corridor nationwide.

FITNESS/SPORTS INFLUENCE

"I paint quickly with cojones, brains and balance as a consequence of sports - I've been a Little League Baseball fielder, NRA Bar 2 Sharpshooter, certified Safe Hunter, played Varsity tennis (Haverford College's Hall of Fame tennis/squash coach taught me a superb life-altering see-it-once learning strategy), a wrestler, rode side horse, belted in martial arts, was a sprint cyclist with an RHR 28 and VO2 max 75 and alternate to Nationals as a newbie racer. When bicycle sprinting, I toed the line trusting another victory. A racer called my track bike a 'Suicide machine' since I trained on open roads, bolted to the pedals, without brakes. I canoed, rafted, backpacked the AT and Anaconda Pintler Wilderness, and ran a 4:08-mile and 31:57 10k - 20 yrs of sub-six miles at 80% effort. There are many more examples and

a whole slew of anecdotes.

EARLY INFLUENCES

"My doctor dad was a front page running back and 440 guy in high school and in the Third Tide on Dog Green, the deadliest beach on D-Day. I can only imagine how he must've been cursed sprinting and triaging amidst moans and cries for help, and charred, smoldering bodies, with sticky blood soaking his clothes and death filling his nostrils. He felt helpless like a 'Stupid, worthless bastard'. Then, he deployed as chief medical officer on APD-78 (DE-693) in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He demanded immediate compliance and expected excellence. The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge built a specialty hospital for him. Pop was sought by Hall of Fame pro athletes, other doctors and the world's wealthiest. Patients loved Dr. B. Colleagues, neighbors, and his wife trembled at his mention. I was his principal scapegoat. I consider what he endured

until his death at age 91. He loved

'The fine art of medicine'.

My pioneering mom earned her own way through college, Phi Beta Kappa, and had straight A's in medical school, taught at CHOP, etcetera, after her doctor dad died when she was 10 y/o, during the Stock Market Crash and the Dakota Dustbowl.

We set up the first licensed equestrian center in Pennsylvania. An Olympic Gold Medalist was 1st headmaster. I mucked 60 stalls, mended fences, built jumps, drove a big Farmall, and a Massey Ferguson tractor mowing pastures and a '46 Willeys Jeep. I was driving all day as an 8 y/o. Pop gave me a compound microscope and chemistry set. My best friend matriculated with MIT (Optical physics) at 10 y/o. Another solved a problem that perplexed mathematicians for more than 1,000 years acc. to my mom. Mom daily took me to the Academy of Natural Sciences - I was a Junior Curator at 5 y/o. I grew up in a 1751 house filled with Early American antiques, Paul Revere silver, Audubon Double Elephants, Chippendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhite ... Our breakfast table dated 1550. I cut my teeth on Roger Tory Peterson's field guides. Mom had a huge nature library. Pop's home office was stacks of medical journals, JAMA, a compound microscope, antiques journals, Tennis Magazine, Scientific American, etc. He was conversant.

HISTORY of the NAME

"Voce Forte (Dallas Opera) gave me the title, The ARTIST Carroll. I was named in homage to our Carroll County next door neighbor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776) - We sailed across the Atlantic on the Lydia from Burgundy, France - where Arches® Aquarelle, my favorite Bright White Cold Press is made. Our patriarch boarded the sailing ship as Johannes Jacques Burgund and got off as John Jacob Burgoon in Baltimore, MD in 1740. My ancestors buck boarded into rough 'n tumble Texas from the tiny railroad-town, Burgoonville, Ohio, in1850.

I flew into DFW June 4, 1984.

"Well, Art is Art, isn't it?

Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Now you tell me what you know".

- Groucho Marx

LOVE, ORANGE & GOLD

"I daily petted a nesting dove in the wild,

a snarly German shepherd, a caged black panther, tigers and a charging bobcat.

I made it with the help of others and

I keep 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤅𐤏 (Him) first.

"I'm living in an oceanic climate that's a popular, cool, summer tourist destination".

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