Some paintings are comically allegorical. In Woman and Skeleton, a bony fellow seated in the grass converses with a nude woman who’s studying herself in a mirror and tidying her hair.... (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/arts/design/albert-york-paintings-at-matthew-marks.html?_r=0) ... the trees close ranks to form a bush before which sit a greenish-white skeleton and a woman, naked but for a black band at her neck, who eyes her reflection (the slightest fleck of pink) in a hand mirror. The skeleton grins sociably, balancing a scythe on one shoulder like a parasol. ( http://www.davisandlangdale.com/BerksonIdyllsofAlbertYork.pdf) ...sometimes creepy and perhaps allegorical as in the painting of a nude young woman on her knees in a pastoral landscape as death or old age in the form of a skeleton looks on. (http://wwwirajoelcinemagebooks.blogspot.nl/2014_11_01_archive.html) http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/20/arts/gallery-view-albert-york-abides-in-his-world-with-grand-aloofness.html