Western art collected by T. Boone Pickens offered at auction
DALLAS โ Works of art depicting the American West and other pieces collected by the late Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens are expected to sell at auction for more than $15 million. Christie's said Thursday that the auction will be held Oct. 28 in New York. Pickens, who grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma, died last Sept. 11 at the age of 91 at his Dallas home. The house is now at Karsten Creek Golf Club, which is the home of Oklahoma State's golf teams. Pickens, who donated more than half a billion dollars to the university, is buried outside his childhood bedroom window.
Oil legend T. Boone Pickens dies
(CNN) - Legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens, whose investments helped shape the American energy industry going back to the 1950s, has died at the age of 91. Pickens announced his retirement from the oil and gas industry in January 2018 due to his poor health. A longtime maverick in the US energy industry, Pickens began a campaign in 2008 to help the US lessen its dependence on oil from OPEC nations. I have always believed that maintaining the status quo inevitably leads to failure," Pickens wrote in an op-ed for Forbes in 2017. "Back then, the notion that shareholders own the companies and managements were employees was foreign to big oil companies that would rather operate like empires.
Oil legend T. Boone Pickens has died at age of 91
(CNN) - Oil executive T. Boone Pickens has passed away at the age of 91. The news was announced on his verified Twitter account by members of the T. Boone Pickens Foundation. Pickens, a long-time Dallas resident, died of natural causes on Wednesday, spokesman Jay Rosser said in a statement on Pickens' website. He had a series of strokes and suffered from head injuries following a fall in 2017. The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.