"I keep Him 1st." Travel in love, hope, and humility.
💎💎💎💎 NOVEL ART. "I hope my art brings comfort and joy to your heart and inspires you." 💎💎 Carroll is robustly observant, intuitive, empathic, and relevant. Art collecting is a privilege of the world's richest and often it is owned by family foundations. 💎 (At the Top) A GOLD STAR MOM cries at her child's funeral on Memorial Day. She slowly speaks few words, connects well with everyone with emotional depth, and sees at a wiser level than others. Carroll observed his family's gut reaction to his older sister's death on her sixth birthday and PTSD directed the artist's perspective. "Success rarely comes in a straight line in art, as in life, so, you want to connect dots others can't see between imaginary lines adding to your legacy." (Above) The FORWARD-THINKER was donated along with 40+ other paintings to Colorado-based The Adoption Exchange in 2002. Accountability is a mirror having real consequences personally and professionally. (Ex 20) (3Jn 2)
◆ ◆ Luxurious Quantumisms ◆ ◆ "When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap." - Baron Joseph Duveen
Dr. Lazar chimed, "SIMPLY INSPIRATIONAL"
over lunch in his office, 1996(?), after Carroll attended Four-star Westmoreland's black tie (Distinguished Eagle Scout, the USMA Pershing Sword, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) with 40 Medal of Honors in the First-Class Dining Room on RMS Queen Mary. The Artist Carroll sat with SPC4 John Baca, Medal of Honor. Carroll befriended two Knight Commanders of the Knights of Malta who were there; Both reported directly to the Pope in Rome. Kitsy had her New York lawyer son, Kip, take a photo of her with Carroll and a Vietnamese general. "An oil company president, took me after Westmoreland's Aide de Camp, Col. Roger Donlon, MOH, made arrangements."
- Lazar is the world's dean of brain surgeons
"My doctor dad demanded perfection
and expected virtuosity."
Carroll is merely an authentic artist,
A Patriot with a Paintbrush™ ---
with your typical farm boy work ethic.
Rolled up shirtsleeves is 6-day fun.
My soul sings in color as I paint."
#1 Damien Hirst a billionaire from England
and $500MM net worth Jeff Koons,
a Pennsylvanian in New York City, NY,
are the world's two richest "artists."
Reportedly, their 100s of employees make the stuff and they sign it as their own handiwork!
You'd have to have an IQ of 30 to want one.
A modern "Dutch tulip?" "Get a rope, all y'all."
Call Clarice. Call Fox 4. Call Kyle Reyes.
"I would rather own a Silly Putty blue egg."
Carroll is a Pennsylvanian in Big D, TX.
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Carroll THE FORWARD-THINKER
He is a firstborn son.
(The original was donated to get orphans into safe, loving homes.
CBS (KRQE) told the humanitarian story in the Evening News.)
"I was too short to play basketball and too small for football. So, I became an artist -
It was that or be a BA Marine (Oorah!)."
Watercolor, like peace, is a romance language,
but you must think differently, not phonetically.
Watercolor IS playing polo in a CA earthquake,
to erroneously phrase 'Rocky' Stallone, our
new Special Ambassador to Hollywood,
from Manhattan in The Big Apple.
University of Miami graduate.
"You love my artwork, or don't give a flip.
A Southern lady has 40-45 of my paintings,
setting the world record."
MEATY SOUNDBYTES FOR EXTREMELY BUSY
PEOPLE THAT LOVE TO READ & LEARN -
Praemium Industriae Divitiae.
#️⃣ 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 allay survivor guilt.
"Helen died from encephalitis when her brain turned into mush immediately after my doctor mom gave her a common medication. She was put on life support for two weeks. Helen was
my leader, #1 support, my BFF, my big sis, ... At age 43 painting began as PAINting for me. I survived in a pain level of 7 and didn't smile or cry for many years. I was reclusive, fearful, angry, and tired of running from the Truth. I knew better but, continued to blame myself. It was a BIG life-altering deal. I laughed at the drop of a pin, a psychologist declared,
'You are a miracle.'
That's when I accepted, I'm a nobody artist
offering some innovative solutions."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
- Arthur Schopenhauer,
The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland,
Korona Królestwa Polskiego.
"I'M JUST AN ARTIST ..."
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.
My Sigma Xi (ΣΞ) underwritten Honor's Thesis got me graduated from a Minnesota college.
He had "clearance" at Savannah Nuclear Power research site (350 sq miles of closed airspace), and Georgia Power's Nuclear Plant Hatch. His boss co-authored the Environmental Protection Agency's first regs with Ruth Patrick, PhD and the president of the United States of America.
ANSP was the first job of debutantes of East Coast Old Money and prestigious schools.
Carroll grew up in a very small resort village
10 miles west of Valley Forge, N.P.,
where General George Washington had his Colonial Army hospital in Chester Springs, PA.
One of Carroll's ancestors enlisted with Washington. Carroll was raised in Mayflower (1620, Plymouth, Mass.) and Old Money circles.
I think big and long term.
2️⃣ "I grew up in elite-level competitive sports, esp. running and track bike racing.
I grew up around world champion horsemen and Olympic team members. My doctor dad was an avid tennis buff. I had tennis lessons since I was knee-high to a wood racket. Dad had been an A-student, a front page running back and a 53s 440 guy on a scoria track at Harrisburg Academy in the 1920s, before he went pre-med in college and enlisted in time to land in the Third Tide on Dog Green, on D-Day. Then, he was deployed to Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Going fast fearlessly is my normal. It wasn't about taking risks.
It never occurred to me that people lived any differently. That was The Burgoon Family culture, our staple every bloody day.
Powerful men and women always found me.
I witnessed influence is simply a tool
in the hands of a grandmaster."
Kevin Costner said,
"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."
(Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, Yellowstone, The Art of Racing in the Rain,
The Guardian, ...)
Carroll was born an INFP-A creative,
despite his MD parents wanting a scientist.
"I attempted to do it their way but,
my cognitive dissonance won."
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.
"That intellectual stuff wasn't my bag -
I rode my Colnago Campy Black, collected mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, and studied
what I chose to study - Then I went running for 20+ years. Now, I'm settled down.
It's been a hell of a journey
learning to love myself!"
SEEDS OF A LIFESTYLE: SPORTS
He was a speedy banked track bike racer (1975: As a Cat 3 cyclist qualified as PA State Alternate to US Nationals (RHR 28, VO2 Max 75), then, distance runner, 1981-83, with a 4:08, 8:56, 31:57, and 1:17:15 on 70 sub-six miles each and every week for more than 20 years. Carroll's a humble, confident guy who thinks punctuation is just a graphics tool --- He used to run 8 miles at 4AM and 10 more after work --- all sub-six just to prepare to race a 5K. Carroll was a Little League RF, then P, an NRA sharpshooter, a JV wrestler 5 years, a Varsity doubles tennis player, did a gymnastics pommel horse exhibition, belted in Kung Fu, ... BUT he loved banked track cycling and trained on SE PA roads - bolted onto his brakeless Condor with Cinelli M71s! Carroll maintains his grip and core strength, and a super level of elite athletic fitness as he power walks, hikes, and gravel bikes daily nowadays.
This makes his hands strong, steady, skillful, dependable, and brilliantly dexterous, esp.
when painting with a paintbrush in hand.
His playful, youthful, empathic spirit makes you inspired and breathless by his handiwork.
"Painting is as exciting as time trialing requiring
PASSION, PRAGMATISM, and PRECISION
with a mega-dose of austerity."
3️⃣ Carroll is a strategist and mysteriously intuitive, tactical entrepreneur, and rainmaker, w/o an 'off' switch. He is like a confident, stealthy Alpha tiger. 孫子
"I'd had extensive 1-on-1 sales training and mentoring with the best in the U.S.A. My forte:
Birddogging, referral generation, client building, client retention, ... graphic design and writing.
Results (ROI and ROAS) matter to me."
He was head, chef, and bottle washer of a Dallas boutique marketing firm for 10 years.
His work connected spiritually, mentally --- consciously --- A referral from America's top boardroom consultant said, "[She] sent me. That can only mean one thing. You must be [super, super] good. Other client examples: A civilian two-star in charge of 30,000 civilian scientists at Andrews AFB, a sales and marketing VP for an oil and gas giant, ... "My Philadelphia clients had all been Big Eight accountants, PNB, Mellon, etc. bankers, law partners, entrepreneurs, and doctors. I was recruited at the Athenaeum by a general agent and former #1 salesman nationwide with a Midwestern blue-chip company.
I learned to sell on a napkin."
"I threw away a note from the U.S. President, George H. W. Bush, applauding my community service in north Texas --- I was in Toastmasters' leadership and honored as Rookie of the Year out of 1,200+ in the world's #1-ranked district (4,200 members). Then, I was elected Northern Division Lt. Governor overseeing training and development of about 600 members in 30 clubs, then, appointed District Treasurer. Why would the President of the United States be watching me way out in Texas? I was just one among many.
I joined for effectiveness of public speaking
and leadership, that's all. I gave 225 public talks and workshops in my first six months and was on radio, TV, cable, and corporations e.g., Texas Instruments, State Farm Regional, Federal Credit Union, etc. Later, I gave 525 more keynote art talks in Barnes & Noble Bookstores, K-5, middle schools, high schools, colleges, AAUW-SMU, University of Chicago Alumni, ... Rotary, Kiwanis, seniors, Dallas Police, radio, 50+ newspapers, corporations, ... by 9 mos. I'd torn up my vocal cords so, I got back to painting."
SEEDS OF MODESTY: NOVEMBER 1993:
"Then, at 4AM one morning, I stood alone in my marketing office and spoke into the empty room, 'Please reveal my gifts to me and help me use them.' I didn't know anyone was listening. Six months later I was painting on the far side of 'The Pond' in Spain. I sold my marketing business overnight when I returned stateside. The power of watercolor painting had suffused my imagination and mindset.
I chose the path less traveled
as Robert Frost exhorted!"
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
- Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, the Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2021.
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 collectors ever master
the finicky language of curating art on paper,
let alone being knowledgeable of watercolor:
Albrecht Dürer, John Singer Sargent, J. M. W. Turner, Paul Klee, Thomas Moran, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, John James Audubon, Mary Cassatt, John Marin, and Leonardo da Vinci.
"I hid in historic 'Unique by Nature,' McKinney, TX and avoided its thriving arts community, where I made 12 of watercolors --- 16 others were on display at Christ Fellowship for 2 yrs.
(Four were portraits of McKinney residents modeling for Book of Luke sermons. The megachurch's senior pastor had The Dallas Morning News come interview me. Twelve were featured in a 400,000-member Chicago nonprofit's custom 'loyalty' calendar with 75,000 selectively mailed gratis worldwide.)
A painting was at Plano City Hall, put there by the Fire Chief, Bill Peterson after 9/11.
Even Ross Perot, Sr. phoned me one morning to coach and assist me - Heck, my wife, at the time, left and married someone else, briefly."
Carroll is a creative storyteller, and Watercolors are his finest wordsmithing --- always from personal firsthand experience, playful, symbolic, poetical, and athletic.
He is a risk-all taking entrepreneur.
"I woke up. There are never guarantees."
Several paintings got hundreds of thousands
of views with one exceeding 10 million,
twelve were featured in a 12-month calendar, others as regional magazine cover art.
"I was surprised by a gracious letter from
His Majesty Juan Carlos I The King of Spain -
I kept it!"
"My favorite color is Ferrari RED symbolizing speed, passion, and well, game-changing, Masterful technique. Dopotutto (After all),
it has a high-pitched Vvvrrrrrooooooom!
2nd is EMERALD green symbolizing rejuvenation, prosperity, growth, forest bathing, very high moral standards, and strength.
繁栄、成長、森林浴、…
3rd is ROYAL blue symbolizing authority, power, sophistication, classiness (Status), stability, trustworthiness, elegance, wealth, sophistication, command, and eminence.
السلطة، القوة، الهيبة، المكانة، الاستقرار، الثقة، الأناقة، الثروة، الرقي، القيادة، والشهرة.
I use a lot of Winsor & Newton
masterful PURPLE (PV23) symbolizing creativity, royalty, luxury, thoughtfulness, wisdom, and spirituality.
Kreativität, Königlichkeit, Luxus, Nachdenklichkeit, Weisheit und Spiritualität.
Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who (Youtube, 2010, Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who). Vincent van Gogh's estimated IQ 165.
Could AI have made van Goghs, Picassos (IQ 175), Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa, Salvator Mundi, or The Last Supper, ...? We doubt it.
"Virtus tentamine gaudet"
"Strength rejoices in the challenge."
- Motto, Hillsdale College, Michigan
8️⃣ 9️⃣ 🔟 ...
"One of my art mentors did the largest player contract the NFL had ever seen. He handled a lot of household name superstars & more.
I am blessed beyond measure!"
"It was a Brazilian heiress, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo who arranged my study with D. Fco. Alcaraz.
Later, I learned Alcaraz was famous throughout Europe. The older gent was my teacher."
POWERFUL MEN & WOMEN AIDED ME.
Their secretaries and ADCs got it done -
Just a word, just one phone call!
"Thank You!" "شكرًا لك!" "Merci!" "Danke schön!" “謝謝你！” "Cảm ơn!"
"감사합니다!" "¡Gracias!" "Obrigado!"
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.
Ms. Kathy Dugas, 7th-Grade Art, General Wayne JHS, GVSD.
"A gifted JHS teacher, she taught me perspective, to draw hands,
fingers, and to decorate interiors with pleasing sophistication.
She showed me Albrecht Dürer's Young Hare, Praying Hands, and Large Piece of Turf. She set the bar very high --- Outstanding! She pushed me to do better.
Women always look at my fingers and wonder. I have good hands.
A Marine Brigadier General (Ret.), my 11th-Grade Art Appreciation teacher, also at GVSD, first urged me to go to Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia after high school. Man o' man. It was too expressive. I became a freshwater scientist at ANSP in Philly, because it was quietly safer. Later, I switched to a painter and poet. It stuck.
My Little League baseball buddy went to M.I.T. at 10 y/o. Physics.
The other to Harvard also at 10 y/o. Math!
🎖️ Carroll supped with 40 Medal of Honors at Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary. An oil company president got Carroll there aided by Sir Edward Artis, Knight Commander of the Knights of Malta, who invited Carroll to join Sir Ed's inner circle of former presidents of U.S.A., Europe, and South America --- Kitsy's son, a big shot NYC lawyer, shot a picture of his mom with Carroll on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. To continue, at General Westmoreland's black-tie Carroll was seated with SPC4 John Baca, Medal of Honor.
Listen to this 1st Cavalry Division interview:
MOH Baca | 1st Cavalry Division Association (1cda.org)
Col Roger Donlon, GEN Westmoreland's ADC, the first Medal of Honor
in the Vietnam War, sent Carroll the Four-star general's invitation.
PHILANTHROPY
Carroll donated thirty-thousands of his prints, books, and artworks
through Texas hospital volunteers to their hospitalized patients:
Parkland, Baylor, Children's Dallas, Cook Children's Fort Worth, Scottish Rite, ...
Dallas Theological Seminary, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church,
Dallas Baptist University, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Red River and Gulf Coast Chapters, Four-star Leadership, Plano International Preschool,
The Adoption Exchange, Minuteman Disaster Response, ManeGait,
Dr. Betty Spillman's My Guardian Angel, Dallas Can Academy,
Dan Marino Foundation (autism), McKinney's Holy Family School,
Plano's International Preschool, Fort Worth's Nolan High School,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
"I wanted to help people honor and remember those gallant
intrepid patriots. Theirs are incredible stories of selfless valor
that benefitted us AND that we safeguard for everybody."
"Captain Chris Cassidy USN Ret., former chief astronaut of NASA's space shuttle, Navy SEAL, and the current President and CEO of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation in Arlington, TX, accepted one of my prized paintings in a gold-leafed, hand-carved frame (As Alcaraz' made frames for European kings, queens, and to hold masterpieces in the greatest art museums, e.g., Le Louvre in Paris and El Prado in Madrid - Chris graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and M.I.T. My donation honors America's priceless heroes, including Douglas Munro, the Coast Guard's Medal of Honor. Alcaraz carved two for my 1994 'Spain' paintings."
EARLY FAMILY HISTORY
The Burgoons are the Burguns from Burgundy, France, and were until our cordwainer patriarch, Jean Jacques Burgun, anglicized our family name (in 1740) while aboard the Palatinate tall ship Lydia sailing to Baltimore, MD in the Colonies. (P. 91, Ellis Island, NY Harbor records.) Burgoon's were of the pugilistic Burgundiōnes who kicked butt all over Europe starting in ca. 249 AD after they returned to the mainland from Burgundarholmr Island, Denmark. The Kingdom of the Burgundians became a renown part of France --- Burgundy, France. Carroll's great, great, ... uncle signed with Gen. George Washington's Continental Army that tented on Rebel Hill (Where Carroll lived), and Washington's blood-stained Army, marched past The Overhanging Rock at Gulph Mills for a frigid winter at Valley Forge. Carroll was named after Freemason Charles Carroll of Carrollton. CCC was JJ Burgoon's next door neighbor in a German community in Carroll County, Maryland. JJ was a French shoe dog and an artist!
Carroll's great, great, great, ... uncle rode into Fort Worth in 1850.
Carroll flew into DFW from PHL in June 1984, and now, ...
"I was surprised at 6AM on Christmas morning to get a phone call from a PGA Tour Champion's mirthful wife saying at that moment her husband was rearranging their furniture around his surprise gift!" - Carroll, avid artist/watercolor painter, AND former freshwater environmental biologist (inspired by Gregory Pierce, 8th-grade teacher), bike racer (inspired by Bruce Bostrom, MD, a specialist in Pediatric Hematology Oncology at Children's Minnesota who Carroll watched pedal back up to their dormitory, and by Carolyn G. Luhn who made this concluding web site possible for The Artist Carroll).
"... a time a town or even a country is really lost is when the people who live in it get careless and stop paying attention
to how it's being run ..."
- Lucas McCain, The Rifleman, (1960)
168 episodes, 1958-1963, IMDb
Send all the illegal aliens home now.
MAGA: Make Art Great Again.
Web site designed, illustrated, and written by Carroll, è finito April 23, 2025
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