My friend Eileen is no slouch. She holds the 1972 national title for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. At the tender age of eleven, she understood the power of multi-level marketing. She enlisted everyone in her sprawling, Polish-Catholic family as her sales force and held them accountable for moving product. To hear her tell it, getting orders was the easy part. Things became a bit more complicated on delivery day. She hadn’t really prepared for the 18- wheeler which unloaded thousands of boxes of Trefoils, Tagalongs and Do-si-dos on her sidewalk in the 95 degree heat. Whoops.
The reward for her effort was two round-trip tickets to Hawaii and, of course, one heck of a merit badge.
Bo Bartlett’s work is as American as a Thin Mint.
Gallery Representation: David Klein Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery



















awesome Betsy. thanks for putting this together!