SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:




Bill Berkson, “The Mysterious Albert York,” The Paintings of Albert York, 1993

Michael Brenson, “Albert York Abides in His World With Grand Aloofness,” New York Times, March 20, 1998

David Cohen, “When Painted Opposites Attract,” The New York Sun, March 15, 2007

William Corbett, “Albert York: A Port in Air,” Modern Painters, Autumn, 1999 (also presented as a lecture at the New York Studio School, November 3, 1999)

William Corbett. Albert York. Boston: Pressed Wafer, 2010.

William Corbett, “Albert York’s Art,” The Sienese Shredder, #2, 2008, pp. 238-253

Rackstraw Downes, ed., Fairfield Porter Art in its Own Terms: Selected Criticism 1935-1975, 1979

Amy Eshoo, 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at work, 1991-2006, 2008

Eric Gibson, “Expressionisms,” The New Criterion, June 1985, pp. 66-70

Bruce Hainley, “Albert York,” Art Forum, Summer 1998, p. 128

Klaus Kertess, Painting Horizons, 1989

Edward Lucie-Smith, American Art Now, 1985

​Maureen Mullarkey, "Albert York: A Memorial Exhibition," City Arts, April 20, 2010

Mario Naves, “The Indelible Albert York, And His Genteel Cult Following,” The New York Observer, April 30, 2001

Ronald Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting Volume II: The Twentieth Century, 1990

Andrew Russeth, "'Albert York: A Loan Exhibition' at Davis & Langdale Company Inc.," New York Observer, June 4, 2013

Roberta Smith, "Albert York, Reclusive Landscape Painter, Dies at 80," The New York Times, October 31, 2009

Calvin Tomkins, "Artist Unknown," The New Yorker, June 19, 1995.
Davis & Langdale Company has represented Albert York exclusively since 1963, when he had his first exhibition here; and continues to represent the estate of the artist. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1982; and at the Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, in 1992; and was in a three-person exhibition, Painting Horizons: Jane Freilicher, Albert York, April Gornik, at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, in 1989. He has been in numerous group exhibitions, including Artists Choose Artists III at CDS Gallery, New York, 1984, when he was selected by Susan Rothenberg.

In 1995, after a rare interview with the artist, Calvin Tomkins   wrote an extensive profile of Albert York for The New Yorker.

In 2001, York was selected by Werner Kramarsky to receive the Francis J Greenburger Award.

Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, Albert York studied at the Ontario College of Art and the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit. 
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Woman and Skeleton
Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 12 x 11 inches
Painted about 1964
Private collection
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Carnations in a Blue Can with a Beetle in a Landscape
Oil on wood, 14 1/4 x 13 9/16 inches
Painted in 1982
Private Collection
Woman crouching and holding a mirror and Skeleton on the left looking back in front of bushes
ALBERT YORK (1928-2009)

York’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts​, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; and The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

The American author and illustrator Edward Gorey was an admirer of Albert York and dedicated his book The Prune People II (1985) to him.
Palm tree in landscape with moon in daylight sky
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Moonlit Landscape with Palm Tree
Oil on masonite, 10 3/4 x 12 5/16 inches
Painted in October 1990
Private collection
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Wheelbarrow
Oil on wood, 6 7/8 x 11 3/16 inches
Painted in 1974
Private collection
Large red roses with green leaes in glass jar on brown table
ALBERT YORK (1928-2009)
Red Roses in Glass Jar
Oil on wood, 11 15/16 x 10 inches
Painted in 1978
Private collection
Red wheelbarrow in green landscape
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Davis & Langdale Company, New York
Davis & Langdale Company, New York
T&Sn’Kreps, New York
Davis & Langdale Company, New York
Davis & Langdale Company, New York
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
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Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California
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Davis & Long Company, New York
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Davis Galleries, New York
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Davis Galleries, New York
Davis Galleries, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln   
Parallel Starts: Outsider Art Inside Collections               
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, Town and Country (curated by Trevor Winkfield)
Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, New York, 
American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, Multiflorous: A Spring Affair
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, The Self-Reliant Spirit
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, March Winds and April Flowers
Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Lyrical Landscapes
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, More Than Skin & Bones: Portraits Invitational
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, Curious Terrain
AHI Gallery, New York, Songs of the Earth: 
Twenty-two American Painters of the Landscape
Lizan - Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Long Island, Landscape: A New Era
The Painting Center, New York
Outsider Art, New York
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, Long Island, 
Landscape Painting: The 20th Century
The Art Museum at Stony Brook, New York, 20th Century Long Island Landscape
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, Face Off
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 
Painting Horizons: Jane Freilicher, Albert York, April Gornik
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, Epiphanies
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, Drawing on the East End 1940-1988
​American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 
Work of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York,
Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards 
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, Waterworks: The Long Island Legacy
The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, 
American Art Today: Still Life 
CDS Gallery, New York, Artists Choose Artists III [chosen by Susan Rothenberg]
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Art and Friendship: A Tribute to Fairfield Porter 
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio 
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, American Still Life 1945-1983  
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Contemporary Realist Paintings: A Selection
Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, American Modernist Still Lifes [in conjunction 
with the American Still Life exhibition at the National Academy of Design]
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 
Still Life Painting by East End Artists 
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York,
Hassam Purchase Fund Exhibition 
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 
Hassam Purchase Fund Exhibition 
The Queens Museum, New York, Cows
Ingber Gallery, New York, Painterly Representation 
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 
Artists of Suffolk County: Part IV:The New Landscape 
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 
American Sculptors and Painters 
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 
Eighteen Painters: Invitational Exhibition

Carnations at center in a Blue Can with a Beetle at bottom right in a Landscape
ALBERT YORK (1928-2009)
Self Portrait and Head of Woman
Graphite on wove paper, 10 3/4 x 8 3/16 inches
Dated (at lower left, in pencil): 2-00-05
Executed in 2005
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ALBERT YORK CATALOGUE RAISONNE BY CECILY LANGDALE is in preparation.  

Any information about the artist or his pictures would be gratefully appreciated.  Please contact 
Cecily Langdale directly by post, telephone or email  langdale@davisandlangdale.com
Self Portrait of Albert York and smaller head of a woman in upper right corner

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Pencil study with three nude female figures at center of composition standing, crouching, and kneeling
ALBERT YORK (1928-2009)
One Nude, Three Studies
Charcoal on tan paper, 17 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches
Executed circa 1952
Private collection
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Female nude laying on pillows with dark cat at center right
ALBERT YORK (1928-2009)
​Reclining Female Nude with Cat
Oil on wood
9 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches
Painted in 1978
Private collection

Two female figures in skirts and blouses, one laying on her side and on laying on her stomach, heads facing each other in landscape with bushes
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Two Reclining Women in Landscape
Oil on canvas , 10 x 12 inches 
Painted about 1967
Private collection
Grea dog and brown dog on brown foreground with grass and blue sky landscape
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Brown Dog and Grey Dog in Landscape
Oil on masonite, 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches
Painted in early 1978
Private collection

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