Sep 8, 2025
Jackson Pollock, Camp with Oil Rig, ca. 1930–1933, oil on board
This is one of the pieces from the collection of Charles Butt (of the H-E-B grocery store family) now on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. Unless Pollock made copies, this should be the same work that was sold at Christie’s in 2011 (though the auction page also shows either a bottom half or a verso image).
Everyone knows Pollock from his drip paintings, and I had no idea he ever worked in the regionalist style. Then I learn from Christie’s lot essay that Pollock painted this while studying under Thomas Hart Benton, so that would make sense.
