Artist
Albert York
American, 1928–2009
Albert York was an American Contemporary Realism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Albert York was born in Detroit.
Albert York (1928–2009) was an American painter. He lived and worked in New York from 1952 until his death in 2009. He has been represented exclusively by Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. in New York since 1963.
York painted the beauty he saw, once telling an interviewer, "I think we live in a Paradise... This is a Garden of Eden." Michael Brenson of The New York Times described him as a "reclusive painter of deliberate, dreamlike landscapes, still lifes, and portraits."
In his book Tell Them I Said No (Sternberg Press, 2016), the author Martin Herbert includes a chapter on Albert York.
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