Mr. York was no hidebound conservative, though. In good Modernist style, he aimed for a sensuous fusion of paint and image. But he was unpredictably idiosyncratic in what he chose to picture. A painting from 1978 represents two American Indians, one in a loin cloth, the other in a robe and feathered headdress, standing face forward as if posing for a photograph. “Oriental Figures in Landscape,” a similar composition from 1977, portrays a pair of bearded men in turbans, one grasping a long saber. In a work from 1982, a man in Renaissance-era, European armor confronts an Indian and a crocodile. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/arts/design/albert-york-paintings-at-matthew-marks.html?_r=0)