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

As appropriate, IRS Tax Exempt status letter and

Private Letter Ruling (PLR) if appropriate. 

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 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. Eventually, I was disconnected and disinherited.

"I was given a Sigma Xi stipend for my Honor's Thesis and worked on an NSF study. I QUIT: An Entomology Masters and an Ecology PhD, and two MBAs, BUT grazed in research libraries. Nope, I didn't go to the Royal College of Art --- SCAD, Yale, SAIC or Rhode Island,

but a rarer '500+ y/o' art classroom.

"Wrestling, tennis, Kung Fu, bicycle track racing and, running 10ks, ..., training and competition prepared my resolve as an artist/painter.

A PB 4:08 mile and 18-mile sub six days highlight the fact.

"Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital."

- Dr. Albert C. Barnes, PhD, MD

Carroll went to see Dr. Barnes art collection at his home in Merion.

It was an 11th-grade Art Appreciation class trip led by

USMC HoF Brigadier General Kessler (Ret.)

"I'm curious but no history buff. I was named after my dad and his dad in honor of our next-door neighbor, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of our Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Our newly wed patriarch, a cordwainer, sailed into Baltimore, MD from Burgundy, France in 1740. I am a Frenchman on my dad's side and 3rd generation orange Irish on my mother's Smiley-side via Quebec, Canada.

"A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of José 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 - She was a Quarter horse-loving, Hockaday and SMU grad married to a Texas HoF and NFL Cowboy.

At home I gave 500+ keynotes in 12 months then got back to painting.

Among my weekly mentors were MG Hugh Robinson, USMA & M.I.T. graduate, BELO Corp Board Member, a Milwaukee Brewers sinker-slider pitcher turned great salesman and author (teammate of Hollywood's Mark Ciardi), etc., etc.

"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.

American Airlines wanted to do a story in its inflight magazine.

A Kinkaid VP wanted Hollywood to do a film about me.

I wasn't ready for the last two and said 'No'.

"I was invited to Four-star General William Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary on Queen Mary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two knight commanders of priories of the Knights of Malta,

who reported to the Pope in Rome, Italy. Westie's wife, Kitsy, had their son take her picture with me. I was the guest of a Knight of Malta member of the Petroleum Club. Home, it was a catered lunch in the office of the world's dean of neurosurgery at Medical City Dallas.

"I got letters fromThe King of Spain, Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, ... Bob Hope's wife, Trammel Crow on Turtle Creek and others.

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

which shared a Leadership Institute bookshelf with the autographed autobiographies of former POTUS 'W', PM Thatcher, SECDEF Rumsfeld, and General Colin Powell and General Franks. A Hall of Fame Nashville musician made the personal introduction. I asked the General for a personal introduction to President George "W" Bush. Fifteen minutes later I had it. The world's first billionaire, multibillionaire Ross Perot, Sr., founder of EDS called me at 10AM one morning to coach me; A First Edition OTJ was seen on his daughter Caroline's desk by his family head

of security in the former ARCO building in Plano, Texas U.S.A.

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength,

and whosoever loves much performs much, and can

accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done"!

- Vincent van Gogh 

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

I'm a fan of 'Pre' and Bowerman. Now, I'm a 75 y/o Baby Boomer.

"'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.'  I global business owner told me. You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if he was the Crown Prince bidding

for Leonardo da Vinci's $350,400,000 Salvator Mundi in 2017.

"My oeuvre of 750+ artworks began upon the loss of my sister, Helen, when I was 4 y/o and ended with my atelier demo Following the Cloud".