This Wonderland Way artist was the Louisville area’s most prolific WPA-era muralist. The New Albany, Indiana, native studied at the Louisville Art Center and soon became a teacher there. In the mid-1930s he traveled to New York City to take instruction at the Art Students League with such major Ashcan/American Regionalist artists as John Steuart Curry, John Sloan and Isabel Bishop. Returning home, Carroll entered a mural competition which brought him federal commissions to decorate post offices in Batesville, Indiana, Osceola, Arkansas, and Harrodsburg, Kentucky. In 1939 he went to work for the Courier-Journal newspaper, retiring in 1956. He sold his art at the St. James Court Art shows and operated a framing business. In 1965 the Southern Indiana Studio-Gallery was the scene of a 35-year retrospective.

The watercolor and arrowhead cast is one of his popular St. James Art Show works. It is said that they were so popular that after a few years, he would simply arrive, open his trunk and sell all he brought.