This loan exhibition will consist of a small selection of paintings borrowed from private collections; the works date from about 1963 until 1990. Although he did a number of drawings from about 2002 until 2005, he completed no paintings after 1992. Featured in this exhibition is YORK'S last, unfinished oil, on which he worked until shortly before his death; this remarkable picture has never before been seen.
ALBERT YORK was born in Detroit in 1928 and studied at the Ontario College of Art and at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit; he passed away in Southampton, New York in 2009.
Davis & Langdale Company has represented YORK since 1963. In that time, YORK has had numerous one-man shows at Davis & Langdale (once Davis Galleries; then Davis & Long Company). A group of twenty paintings by YORK was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1982. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the widely traveled American Still Life: 1945 - 1983, organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, in 1983 - 1984. In 1989, paintings by YORK were included in the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, exhibition Painting Horizons: Jane Freilicher, Albert York, April Gornik. In 1990, his work could be seen simultaneously at the Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, in Long Island Landscape Painting: The 20th Century, and at The Art Museum at Stonybrook, New York, in 20th Century Long Island Landscape Painting. More recently, in 1992, YORK was the subject of a solo exhibition at Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, organized by Bill Berkson. YORK gave his only interview in 1995 to Calvin Tomkins, who subsequently wrote a profile of the artist for The New Yorker.
YORK was selected by Werner Kramarsky to receive the 2001 Francis J. Greenburger Award. This award is given to artists who, in the opinion of the nominator, should be better known to the public.
ALBERT YORK is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
ALBERT YORK PAINTINGS: A SMALL SELECTION THROUGH JULY 26, 2013
A LOAN EXHIBITION
ALBERT YORK (1928 - 2009)
Trees and Distant Hills, East Hampton
Oil on wood, 8 x 11 15/16 inches
Painted about 1963
Private Collection
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