Davis & Langdale Company, Inc.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bill Berkson, “The Idylls of Albert York,” Art in America, September, 1988, pp. 173-177

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 Painting 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’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

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

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. His most recent Davis & Langdale exhibition was in 2007. 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.

Woman and Skeleton

Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 12 x 11 inches

Painted about 1964

Private collection

Self Portrait and Woman

Graphite on wove paper, 10 3/4 x 8 3/16 inches

Dated (in pencil, at lower left side): 2-00-05

Executed February 2005 in Florida

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, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

The American author and illustrator Edward Gorey was an admirer of Albert York and dedicated his book The Prune People II (1985) to him.

Moonlit Landscape with Palm Tree

Oil on masonite, 10 3/4 x 12 5/16 inches

Painted in October 1990

Private collection

Wheelbarrow

Oil on wood, 6 7/8 x 11 3/16 inches

Painted in 1974

Private collection

Red Roses in Glass Jar

Oil on wood, 11 15/16 x 10 inches

Painted in 1978

Private collection

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