York was no hidebound conservative.... 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....Oriental Figures in Landscape portrays a pair of bearded men in turbans, one grasping a long saber. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/arts/design/albert-york-paintings-at-matthew-marks.html?_r=0) ...as in Eden, there is always a reminder of evil lurking, a potential for a reversal, a downfall. A snake glides through a forest in one, men in Oriental garb stand in brown field, one holding a sword, in another. (http://observer.com/2013/06/albert-york-a-loan-exhibition-at-davis-langdale-company-inc/) Pictures like Oriental Figures in Landscape portray not people, whom we know York tended to avoid, but ideal types, which the artist was very much into distilling.... (http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/the-spotlight-finds-paintings-late-legendary-recluse-albert-york-7193845)