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"I worked through repeated tragedies.

These paintings share my story".

From $831,655*

1. METAMORPHOSIS, Philadelphia-Area, Pennsylvania

"My parents, doctors Jane Smiley Burgoon and Carroll F. Burgoon, Jr.

I was making precise, detailed drawings when I was 4½ y/o. Thus, my quest began - I didn't have words to express grief over my older sister Helen's tragic sudden death.

I was a member of the Junior Curators Club, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Est. in 1812), had a compound microscope and made Riker mounts when I was 5 y/o.

I was photographing National Park landscapes

when I was 7 years old.

2. WATERCOLORS, Spain/Texas

水彩画 Aquarelles Aquarelle Acuarelas ألوان مائية 

"I began painting at 43 years old when

Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha arranged my studies with the genius artist Don Fco. Alcaraz who took me into his atelier for the summer and showed me how to do what he did 24/7; Then, Jimmy Jack Whitaker, multi-Grammy winner, Hall of Fame musician, singer-songwriter, producer, produced by Gary S. Paxton and George Maddaloni, wrote four #1 hits worldwide, opened or performed with Willie Nelson and Charlie Daniels, introduced me to General Tommy Franks, thinks of me as his little brother; LtCol Keith Self (Ret), U.S. House of Representatives, former county judge, West Point graduate, 82nd Airborne, Ranger, Master Parachutist, served at USCENTCOM on General Franks staff, helped draft proposal for Gen Franks (Ret); Bruce Miller, senior pastor Christ Fellowship, mentor, framed and prominently displayed my Holy Land and Book of Luke paintings, and got the Dallas Morning News to come interview me; Retired USAF Capt Jeran Akers, Mayor, Plano, Texas business owner; Major General Hugh G. Robinson, PE, BELO Board member who mentored me and advocated me to BELO assets and Good Morning Texas cohosts, MIT graduate; EDS founder Ross Perot, Sr.; LORAC Chairman, philanthropy consultant Carol Joyce Hinkley Thompson heard about me keynoting to American Association of University Women at SMU and promoted me to her Dallas clients: Ross Perot, Sr., Gen Robinson, Ron J. Anderson, M.D. CEO, Parkland Health & Hospital System etc.; Huntley Paton, publisher American City Business Journals, Dallas; The 500+ audiences around North Texas; Belarmino “Blackie” Gonzalez, owner and show host KCHF TV-11, Santa Fe, New Mexico; M. Patrick Esquerré founder of La Madeleine French Bakery & Café refined my first book, Ode to Joy at his first location next to SMU; Dallas Chapter of Credit Unions; Millennial Carolyn Luhn knew I'd sell out as I finished this art 'brochure' website in 'The Sweetest Town in Texas', founded by Tennessean Davy Crocket. (The Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 1836.) There were many more. 'It took a village ...'

"I didn't care about exhibiting or selling,

and provenance was not a concern.

I like Cerulean (sky) blue, Ferrari red, forest green, Winsor & Newton's dioxazine purple with its deep blue undertones.

FOCUSED & PASSIONATE (!!!)

"I paint flowers to keep my wrists loose.

I rinsed my brush in my crystal of Cab, used my toothbrush on some Botanical Garden works, sandpapered a dozen bespoke Holy Land pics, tore up stacks of my originals and hundreds of professionally shot 4 x 5's. I sold my purple thistles drawing for $100 just to get it out of my sight - I painted 12 detailed Holy Land images for a custom calendar (400 hours in 20 days) sent gratis to 75,000 top benefactors worldwide of a 400,000-member non-profit in Chicago, IL.

I donated to many non-profits ... 65 to 75 original watercolors. The whereabouts of 90% of my paintings and drawings are unknown.

I kept no records.

"It was a Brazilian lady, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, 1895, who arranged my study

with Don Fco. Alcaraz.

Helena was a woman of patience, of wealth, of presence. She reached out across the ocean to ensure the training of this artist.

"Ode to Joy (Beethoven's Ninth) Many of my watercolors were made while listening to

Nancy Brunson morning host of Girl Power WRR Classical 101.1 FM, Dallas, Texas.

"I paint LOVE, because love isn't soft, it's hard.

I paint LOVE fiercely, wildly, and deeply.

My fingers move with the fury of a prophet

and the patience of a saint.

[My muse is a lovely lyric soprano, whose sweet voice dances with angels, who washes my feet, and loves medium-sized dogs.]

"Four-star General Tommy Franks (Ret), former USCENTCOM Commander overseeing a 25-country-region including the Middle East, penned the foreword to my first book,

A Hall of Fame musician introduced us.

I donated 2,600 full-color throughout, perfect bound, 200-page 1st Eds @ $34.95 each.

"Kitsy Westmoreland had her NY attorney son take her picture with me at a small private dinner aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, attended by 40 Medal of Honors and two

Knight of Malta Commanders who reported to the Pope. Arrangements were made by Westy's ADC; I was the guest of a Knight of Malta oil company president. The dean of neurosurgery, a Knight of Columbus, hosted a private lunch for me in his office. An A.H. Belo Trustee mentored and championed me; As did Ross Perot and his philanthropy consultant. One mentor, a sinker-slider pitcher laughing said, 'I threw one too many pitches to Barry Bonds' -

Sometimes I painted both sides of a sheet of paper. There were some mighty lean times.

I'd been a RF and SP in Little League Baseball.

Then, ... I wrestled 5 years, played tennis 16+ years, raced bikes on the banked track (RHR 28 VO2 max 75, 40 to 60 miles daily high intensity training, free weights, rope jump 2 to 3 hours 7 days a week), ran distance (PB 4:08 mile, 31:57 10K, 70 to 95 sub-six miles 5 days weekly), ... Then, 70-minute-Power walked 7 miles daily.

"I GOT GOOD GENES."

"Poppy had been a U.S.N. doctor, Third Tide, on Dog Green, D-Day and Chief Medical Officer on U.S.S. Bull in the Pacific. I'm here because SEALs kept his boat unmarred. He was a front page running back and 53 sec. 440 ft. cinder track runner at Harrisburg Academy in the 1930s before starting blocks. Poppy had been a 3rd Degree Mason, Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. He was a professor at Temple University and University of Pennsylvania medical schools and had a huge private practice on the Main Line. Dr. B died at age 91; He learned Spanish to talk with his CVIM patients. He built his wife, Jane, a world-class equestrian center next door around a ca. 1732 mansion with a 60-horse barn and hired a New Zealand, FBHS, an Olympic gold medalist to be headmaster followed by a Burghley Horse Trials winner and 2x British Olympic Team member. Poppy loved 'The fine art of medicine.' He was national president of AAD and widely published. He kept everything shipshape and was repeatedly named 'The Doctor's Doctor' by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

At 91 he was reading journals extensively,

spending time with his microscope and taking graduate courses in horticulture and Spanish.

He was a hobby Early antiques expert.

Poppy was tireless. My dad loved to work hard.

My brunette Mom was Phi Beta Kappa when

she earned her way through college. She worked in the library and typed other's papers to earn her way through medical school.

Mom got straight A's.

"Both parents were avid tennis buffs.

They were married about 60 years.

Both liked to win.

"My given name, Carroll, honors our Maryland neighbor, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Burgundy, France. Our surname was Burgund

boarding the Colony-bound Lydia in 1740; The Burgunds disembarked Burgoon. They were 100% opportunity seekers. Pioneering Burgoons from Ohio settled in Fort Worth, Texas in 1850;

Burgoons fought in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WW1, WWII, Korean War,

Vietnam, ... 134 years later I flew into Texas, escaped my dad's shadow and old beliefs,

and established my identity - The Lone Star State permeated my artwork. After 42 years in North Texas, I chartered a jet and flew to the Wild Heart of the Rockies and adventure.

[Burgundians lived on Burgundarholmr Island,

Denmark, before returning to the mainland.

Roman soldiers feared and avoided them. Burgundians fully conquered Europe 1,000 years before Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. Today, they reside in France and Switzerland.]

"The President of the U.S., Geo. Bush, sent me a note saluting my community service. I didn't know anyone was watching. Cool beans.

My little watercolor hangs with Picasso oils

on a Fort Worth, Texas cattle ranch!"

- Carroll, INFP-A

"The rivalry is with our self. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself,

not against the other."

- Luciano Pavarotti

"Art is just money on walls".

- Larry Gagosian, G.O.A.T. art dealer

  Artists: Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and the estates of Andy Warhol & Picasso.

"When you pay high for the priceless,

you're getting it cheap".

- 1st Bar Joseph Duveen, art dealer 

 Clients: J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick,

Andrew Mellon, William Randolph Hearst,

John D. Rockefeller Jr., ...