Leon Kossoff

Kossoff isn't as familiar a name in the United States as Lucian Freud, but he is one of Britain's greatest figurative painters, known for painting the same subjects—friends, family, London itself—over and over again in an untiring examination of form. This new body of work, his first to be exhibited in more than a decade, focuses on the image of an ancient cherry tree in Kossoff's garden, kept from falling over by wooden props. The canvases and the studies accompanying them are a meditation on age and the passage of time by an artist now in his mid-eighties.