Following the Cloud, about 22.5" x 32.5," 2011.

Rising Bar C cutting horse after a pelting rain crossed

the Blackland Prairie.

QUESTIONS. TEXT Carroll @ 214-799-3125 - DO NOT CALL

$8,205.13 per sq. in. EFT. (He doesn't answer his phone)

As appropriate, IRS Tax Exempt status letter. 


ANSWERS TO FAQs

"My world known doctor dad, son of a banker, demanded disciplined excellence and expected immediate virtuosity. He was an active battlefield doctor on D-Day and in the Pacific. The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge built a specialty hospital for him. My University of South Dakota PBK mom was also a MD doctor who signed me up in the Junior Curators Club at Academy of Natural Sciences - I was a 5 y/o.

budding young scientist who played in the woodland stream below our 3-story fieldstone home built by Welshman Griffith Jones in 1751.

Mom taught Peds at CHOP, University of Pennsylvania, then got Board Certified in Dermatology and joined my dad's practice.

My traveling Uncle Don Carter and his helpmate wife Mary could see a trend 10-20 years down the road and were always ready for it.

My childhood pal, our Little League Baseball catcher went to M.I.T. (Physics) at 10 y/o. Similarly, I blazed my own pathway, as a freshwater scientist and later as a watercolor artist. So, I dance on the corpus collosum. My older sister's tragic death when I was four turned my world upside down for decades. My folk's PTSD complicated it.


"I was given a Sigma Xi stipend for my undergrad Honor's Thesis and worked on an NSF study. I QUIT: An Entomology Masters and an Ecology PhD, and two MBAs. I grazed in research libraries.


"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard".
- Herman Melville, American Renaissance writer,

Moby-Dick
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" I didn't go to Royal College of Art --- SCAD, SAIC or Rhode Island.

A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of JosΓ© Agostinho Pereira da Cunha co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (CRF) whose life-sized statue adorns the front of the rowing/soccer clubhouse, arranged my studies with Spaniard D. Fco. Alcaraz, artist to kings and queens, superstar actors and Hall of Fame pro athletes - France's Louvre, Spain's El Prado, NYC's Met, the Palace at Versailles, the private collection of Long Island's Walter Chrysler, Jr.

Helena went to Paris to meet Alcaraz and followed him to Spain --- An Oklahoma oil heiress paid my way to Spain with a proviso she'd get the first pick after I returned to Texas - At home I gave 500+ keynotes in

12 months then got back to painting.


"I did a Texas Rangers AA RoughRiders painting for the Texas Credit Union Association to benefit Children's Miracle Network.

I did a Ft Worth high school fundraising piece for a PGA Tour Champion - His wife called me at 6AM to mirthfully say that at that moment he was rearranging their furniture around her gift.


"Former USCENTCOM Commander, Four-star General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st book, Ode to Joy (OTJ).


"I wore NIKE racing flats in Spain - I trained and raced in Waffle Trainers and bought a pair every 250 miles of sub six miles, 13 pairs/year!

I was a fan of 'Pre'. Now, I'm a Baby Boomer with attitude.


"My most popular hobby watercolors were very quick abstracts.

20-30 of my works were with small details like Following the Cloud,

my 40-hr 2011 studio DEMO example of real Blackland Prairie cowboy.

Most artworks I did listening to Classical music on WRR FM 101.1 FM.

Dallas Opera introduced me as The Artist Carroll.

I've been called The Paintbrush Poet and The King's Painter.

Regardless, you like my watercolors or you don't".