What Charles Butt’s Art Collection Reveals About the Elusive Man Behind H-E-B

I should have known better than to expect to meet someone who once described himself as a “poor man’s Howard Hughes.” And yet, how could I not try? After all, the man is not exactly a hidden figure—his last name, or at least his last initial, adorns more than 440 H-E-B grocery stores in the Lone Star State and Mexico. He’s led the chain, founded in Kerrville by his grandmother, for 54 years and counting. And now, for the very first time, he is revealing something deeply personal for Texans far and wide to experience: his art.And not the kind that signals a certain IYKYK cachet to the cognoscenti—you’ll find nary a Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Warhol, or Picasso in his collection. Instead, he is devoted to American…

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