"My world known doctor dad demanded disciplined excellence and expected immediate virtuosity. His trophy wife, my mother, PBK taught Pediatrics at CHOP, University of Pennsylvania,
was Dr. Nelson's 1st editor of Nelson's North American Pediatrics, etc. etc.
Daily she drove me to the Junior Curators Club at The Academy of Natural Science of Drexell (Originally
ANSP, 'of Philadelphia,' est. 1812);
I'd just turned 5 years old.
Mom loved her childhood buckskin, the Corn Palace, and the Lakota Sioux.
So, Pop bought her the farm next door a 1732 house with a 60-horse stable and set up Fox Hollow Farms Equestrian Center with Kiwi Lockie Richards, FBHS as 1st headmaster followed by Grand Prix Burghley winner and 2x British Olympian Major Jeremy Beale.
I grew up around horses.
My sister's death began my quest.
"While in college, I was a taxonomic consultant at ANSP and after graduate school, Principal Investigator on
environmental impact assessments for BP, P&G, Scott Paper, Washington Suburban and Potomac Electric.
"I began careful drawing as a 4 y/o.
My doctor dad gave me a compound microscope, chemistry set, baseball glove and racing bicycle, 69 years ago.
I began field photography in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a 7 y/o.
"I learned to waltz alone on the corpus collosum. I'd rather a β partner. For those who can see, my WCs are 9-10 levels deep; I'm a paintbrush in my Father's sure hands. My WCs are windows to heaven - miracles.
"When I had an oeuvre of 750 WCs, I
trashed about 400 - A 160 IQ Yale MFA (Art History) watched me paint them
and called me a great 'Genius.' I often heard I'd be as well-known as Picasso! Imagine Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker,
you're out of New York's shadow.
"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 $350+ million Salvator Mundi
"They have something to say worth saying and claim for themselves only the freedom to express it in their own way".
- Lillie P. Bliss, co-founder, MoMA
with Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and
Mary Quinn Sullivan
"Ron Anderson, MD, President & CEO, Parkland Hospital, wanted my artwork in hospital rooms and corridors nationwide. Alice Walton's AWSOM comes to mind.
All Rights Reserved in the USA and abroad by Carroll F. Burgoon, III.
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