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Albert York

Albert Edward York (1926 - 2009) was active/lived in New York, Michigan.  Albert York is known for Small-scale landscape and floral still life painting.

"Albert York, Reclusive Landscape Painter, Dies at 80"

By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: October 31, 2009, The New York Times, P. 34

Albert York, a painter of small, mysterious landscapes who shunned the art world yet had a fervent following within it, died Tuesday in Southampton, N.Y. He was 80 and lived in Water Mill, N.Y.

The cause was cancer, said Cecily Langdale of Davis & Langdale, the gallery that, first as Davis Galleries and later as Davis & Long Company, has represented him since 1963.

In a 1995 New Yorker magazine profile of Mr. York, Calvin Tomkins said he was perhaps "the most highly admired unknown artist in America."  He described a shy man who avoided anyone connected to the art world, who worked slowly and who was perpetually dissatisfied with his work, prone to scraping down his wood panels and starting over.

Ms. Langdale said Mr. York usually wrapped his paintings in brown paper and mailed them to the gallery.    ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5607 characters.]  Artist bio

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