Mr. York was an artist’s artist. In a 1995 New Yorker magazine profile reprinted in the exhibition catalog, Calvin Tomkins wrote, “Albert York may be the most highly admired unknown artist in America,” a characterization that still rings true. He worked on wooden boards and pieces of Masonite rarely exceeding a foot square. With a brushy touch and severely muted colors, he painted landscapes, flowers, cows and dogs in a plain-spoken and at times oddly clumsy yet often exquisitely subtle manner. The avant-garde styles that roiled the art world during his lifetime — Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism and all the varieties of Postmodernism — seem to have made practically no impact on him. His inspirations included Manet, Cézanne and, most profoundly, Albert Pinkham Ryder. His only obvious influence among 20th-century painters was Morandi. At a glance, you could mistake his work for that of some forgotten, possibly self-taught, late-19th-century artist. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/arts/design/albert-york-paintings-at-matthew-marks.html?_r=0)