This exhibition’s most visually arresting paintings are those of flowers. They’re his most closely observed and vividly colorful works, the ones in which paint and image are most intimately and sensuously wed. There’s an extraordinary smoky glow to the red, pink, purple and orange colors in “Zinnias and Pink Rose in Blue Pot”. Some of these paintings are nearly surrealistic. In “Three Red Tulips in a Landscape With Horse and Rider” (1982), the flowers growing out of dirt in the foreground loom monumentally against a pale blue sky, while in the distance, a shadowy figure on horseback trots in from the right for who knows what reason. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/arts/design/albert-york-paintings-at-matthew-marks.html?_r=1)