This book provides the first substantial overview of this reclusive artist and his timeless paintings. Including full-color plates of over sixty works spanning York’s career, a new essay by poet and art critic Bruce Hainley, plus earlier essays by Fairfield Porter and Calvin Tomkins, an extensive chronology, a complete bibliography, and a detailed catalogue of works, this publication is a testament to, as Hainley puts it, York’s “pursuit of lyric intensity while negotiating a point-blank confrontation with history — all in stealth relation to the leopard-alive instant at the end of the brush.” Essays by Bruce Hainley, Calvin Tomkins, and Fairfield Porter