Altoon Sultan (1948) is an American artist and author who specializes in rural

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painted in

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. Her works are in the collections of the

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, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the

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. She has received two grants from the

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. She received her BFA in 1969 after studying painting at Brooklyn College, and her MFA in 1971, also at Brooklyn College, where she studied with

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and

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. She also attended

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. Altoon Sultan maintains a popular

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, ''Studio and Garden'', in which she posts nature photographs of her home in

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, her land and garden, her thoughts about her art-making, and reviews and photographs of exhibitions she frequently visits in

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and elsewhere. Sultan is known for her dedication to materials and color, often valuing the two over a deeper meaning to her pieces. She is also known for rejecting the large scale that minimalist art often takes, instead favoring a smaller, more intimate scale.

Exhibitions

Sultan's art was shown at McKenzie Fine Art in New York in 2017. Her

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sculptures in painted

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, begun in 2015, were exhibited for the first time in the show at McKenzie. Her 2007 show ''Monuments of Architecture'' at the

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featured her egg-tempera paintings showing the influence of her photography.

Collections

Sultan's art is included in the

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's Kenneth Tyler Collection.

Biography

* Altoon Sultan, ''The Luminous Brush: Painting With Egg Tempera'', Watson Guptill Publications, New York 1999.

References

External links

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